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<h5 class="subsubsection">9.53.2.1 Special Characters</h5>
<p><a name="index-line-comment-character_002c-Z80-2505"></a><a name="index-Z80-line-comment-character-2506"></a>The semicolon ‘<samp><span class="samp">;</span></samp>’ is the line comment character;
<p>If a ‘<samp><span class="samp">#</span></samp>’ appears as the first character of a line then the whole
line is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be
a logical line number directive (see <a href="Comments.html#Comments">Comments</a>) or a preprocessor
control command (see <a href="Preprocessing.html#Preprocessing">Preprocessing</a>).
<p><a name="index-line-separator_002c-Z80-2507"></a><a name="index-statement-separator_002c-Z80-2508"></a><a name="index-Z80-line-separator-2509"></a>The Z80 assembler does not support a line separator character.
<p><a name="index-location-counter_002c-Z80-2510"></a><a name="index-hexadecimal-prefix_002c-Z80-2511"></a><a name="index-Z80-_0024-2512"></a>The dollar sign ‘<samp><span class="samp">$</span></samp>’ can be used as a prefix for hexadecimal numbers
and as a symbol denoting the current location counter.
<p><a name="index-character-escapes_002c-Z80-2513"></a><a name="index-Z80_002c-_005c-2514"></a>A backslash ‘<samp><span class="samp">\</span></samp>’ is an ordinary character for the Z80 assembler.
<p><a name="index-character-constant_002c-Z80-2515"></a><a name="index-single-quote_002c-Z80-2516"></a><a name="index-Z80-_0027-2517"></a>The single quote ‘<samp><span class="samp">'</span></samp>’ must be followed by a closing quote. If there
is one character in between, it is a character constant, otherwise it is
a string constant.
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