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String Literal

Valid for: CANoe DE • CANoe4SW DE • CANoe:lite DE • CANoe4SW:lite DE A string literal is a character string in quotation marks: “This is a character string” Note
Like in the C language, when storing string literals in char arrays, one char at the end of the array needs to be reserved for the string termination character (/0), i.e. the char array needs to be one element longer than the pure string length.

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Escape Sequences

Certain characters are displayed as a combination of characters with a preceding backslash (escape sequence) within a character string, e.g:
  • Description: New line
    Display Inside Character Strings: \n
  • Description: Tabulator
    Display Inside Character Strings: \t
  • Description: Backslash
    Display Inside Character Strings: \\
  • Description: Carriage return
    Display Inside Character Strings: \r
  • Description: Backspace
    Display Inside Character Strings: \b
  • Description: Double quotation mark
    Display Inside Character Strings: \"
  • Description: Single quotation mark
    Display Inside Character Strings: \'
Note
The CAPL string encoding usually matches the encoding of the source file. When you create a file with the CAPL Browser, it will save the file in an encoding which matches the language settings of your computer and write the encoding in a special comment at the beginning of the file. If the source file is encoded in UTF-16 or if an include file has a different encoding than the source file, the CAPL string encoding will be UTF-8.