A quoted literal is a string of characters enclosed in double
quotes (" "). Use the following guidelines when specifying
characters in a quoted literal:
o Any character except null, carriage return, and form feed can
appear within the string.
o To include a double quote or backslash in a string, you must
precede it with a backslash (\).
o To specify an arbitrary character, you can specify "\xhh",
where each h represents a single hexadecimal digit. For
example:
"AB\\CD\"EF\x47"
This string contains the following characters:
AB\CD"EFG
Also note that the assembler does not convert the case of
alphabetic characters within a quoted literal.
Quoted literals can be continued over several lines. Use the
hyphen (-) as the line continuation character and delimit the
string with double quotes. For example:
.ASCII "Strings are delimited with double quotes."
.ASCII "The backslash is an escape character."
.ASCII "Strings can be continued onto multiple lines -
just as any other line."
.ASCII "Use two backslashes (\\) to represent -
the back-slash itself."
.ASCII "Hexidecimal escape sequences use -
lower or upper X: \x00 or \X00"
.ASCII "Precede a double quote with a backslash (\") -
to embed the quote."