String literals

string is Silk’s built-in UTF‑8 byte sequence type. String literals write a string value directly in source code.

Full reference: literals string.

Example: multiline text and escapes#

import std::io;

fn main () -> int {
  std::io::println(`line1
line2`);
  std::io::println("quote=\\\" backslash=\\\\");
  return 0;
}

See also#

• Full reference: literals string
• std::strings: strings