Strings

The purpose of a string is to allow any sequence of printable characters and the space to be transmitted. A string is a sequence of ASCII characters, written using C's notation for strings. Thus, a string is surrounded by double-quote characters and excludes control characters.

If a double-quote character is used inside a string, it must appear as the sequence \" (backslash followed by double quote).

A control character can be represented by a backslash followed by its ASCII sequence number in octal notation.

The NUL is not representable.