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Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition
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Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

by Paul J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., Harvey M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
June 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1344 pages
42h 52m
English
Pearson
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16.2. Fundamentals of Characters and Strings

Characters are the fundamental building blocks of Visual Basic source code. Every program is composed of characters that, when grouped together meaningfully, create a sequence that the compiler interprets as instructions describing how to accomplish a task. In addition to normal characters, a program also can contain character literals, also called character constants. A character literal is a character that is represented internally as an integer value, called a character code. For example, the integer value 97 corresponds to the character literal "a"c, and the integer value 122 corresponds to the character literal "z"c . The letter c following the closing double quote is Visual Basic’s syntax for ...

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