Chapter 7. Characters and Strings (STR)
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STR30-C. Do not attempt to modify string literals
According to the C Standard, 6.4.5, paragraph 3 [ISO/IEC 9899:2011]:
A character string literal is a sequence of zero or more multibyte characters enclosed in double-quotes, as in "xyz". A UTF−8 string literal is the same, except prefixed by u8. A wide string literal is the same, except prefixed by the letter L,
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