## ALP Programming Guide and Reference

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### Text Literals

Description

Constraints

A Text-Literal is a single unit of text that is used by the Text Preprocessor in many different text handling contexts. In some contexts ( such as the processing of arguments to be passed to a macro), normal language Token s are implicitly treated as Text-Literal s, provided they are not a delimiter character such as a comma or a blank. In other contexts, it may be necessary to explicitly convert a unit of text to a Text-Literal using the Literal-Text-Operator.

Text-Literal:
operand of Literal-Character-Operator
operand of Literal-Text-Operator