character literal

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[edit] Syntax

' unescaped_character|escaped_character ' (1)
L ' unescaped_character|escaped_character ' (2)
u ' unescaped_character|escaped_character ' (since C++11) (3)
U ' unescaped_character|escaped_character ' (since C++11) (4)
' (unescaped_character|escaped_character)+ ' (5)

[edit] Explanation

unescaped_character
Any valid character
escaped_character
see escape sequences

[edit] Type

  1. char
  2. wchar_t
  3. char16_t
  4. char32_t
  5. int

[edit] Note

Multicharacter literals (5) have implementation-defined value