How to Create Character Literals in Sysmac
Written by Arlo D'Cruz
Updated at February 2nd, 2023
Character Literals in Sysmac
It is common when manipulating strings in Sysmac that you would need to add characters that cannot be entered in the traditional way. For example the ' character cannot be normally entered as adding a ' will end the string. Similarly, a newline character cannot be included in a string. To resolve this, it is possible to use character literals in their place. The below table shows a list of character literals and their equivalent ASCII characters.
| Character Literal |
ASCII Character |
| $L |
Line feed |
| $N |
New line |
| $P |
Form feed |
| $R |
Carriage return |
| $T |
Tab |
| $' or $" |
Quotes |
| $<Any 2 hexadecimal digits> |
Character of given ASCII value |