## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Text Operators

The Text Preprocessor recognizes certain punctuator characters as text operators. The programmer may use these operators to force the Text Preprocessor to perform various operations such as delineating text, expanding arguments, and converting expressions into their text representations.

Text-Operator:
Literal-Character-Operator
Literal-Text-Operator
Text-Expansion-Operator
Text-Substitution-Operator