Strings

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A string is a sequence of bytes or characters enclosed within single quote (‘'’) characters. Examples:

'example string'

'single quote '' here'

'this is line 1

this is line 2

the end'

Strings can contain any binary character up to the last single quote; strings extending through multiple lines are perfectly allowed, actually all non-printable characters are allowed.

Note: slashes '\' are not treated in any particular way

Escaping

Gladius DB strings need to be escaped only for the single quote character ' (hexadecimal 0x27); two subsequent single quote characters will be converted to a single quote character.

Note that the second example string must be double-quoted when used in a PHP parser:

<?php

$mystring = " 'single quote '' here' ";

// 'single quote '' here'

echo $mystring;