Literal
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Literal string
or
character string
is a data type in
programming languages
to represent text.
Literal
in programming, is a notation for specifying a constant value.
Literal
in logical
expressions
is an elementary
proposition
or its
negation
.
Literal
in
regular expressions
and in descriptions of
formal grammars
is a synonym of
terminal symbol
(which is used in the
formal language
"literally", rather than generates a chain of substitutions).
Literal
in
data compression
is a chunk of input data that are represented "as is" in the compressed data.
Literal
translation
adheres as closely as possible to the forms of a source language text
Literalism
in religion and philosophy is the adherence to literal interpretation and
fundamentalism
.
