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STRING

A single-quote-delimited string literal token. The content may include any character or an escape sequence. Supports \', \", \\, \/, \f, \n, \r, \t, and Unicode escapes (\uXXXX).

Examples

Simple string literal

'Hello, World!'

URI string (used in declarations)

codesystem "SNOMED-CT": 'http://snomed.info/sct'

String with escape sequence

'It\'s a test'

Version specifier string

library MyLib version '1.0.0'
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' ESC any character '

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EBNF

STRING
  : '\'' (ESC | .)*? '\''
  ;

Used In

codeIdcodeSelectorcodesystemIddisplayClauseexternalConstantliteralsimpleLiteralvaluesetIdversionSpecifier