User guide

16 CHAPTER 2. THE BCPL LANGUAGE
SLCT shift:offset means SLCT 0:shift:offset
SLCT offset means SLCT 0:0:offset
Character constants consist of a si n gl e character e n cl osed in single qu ot es (’).
The chara ct er returns a value in the range 0 to 255 correspond ing to its no r m al
ASCII encoding.
Character (and string) constants may use the following escape sequences.