## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Literal Character Operator (!)

Description

Constraints

Examples

When you use an exclamation point (!) in an operand, ALP treats the next character literally. (!) is typically used to prevent the assembler from recognizing and acting upon special characters such as the semicolon (;) or the ampersand (&), forcing them to appear as normal data characters.

Literal-Character-Operator:
! any printable character