Lexical conventions

Resource files obey the following lexical conventions:

• Whitespace, except when enclosed in quotes for strings, is ignored by the compiler.

• Both C-style (/* */) and C++-style (//) comments are supported.

• Strings must be enclosed with double-quotes.

• To include a double-quote within a string, enter a double-quote preceded by a backslash. The following resource:

  RESOURCE SIMPLE quote_example
   {
   string="\"text\"";
   }

  where string is of type BUF, generates the output string "text".

• To include a backslash within a string, enter two backslash characters. The following resource:

  RESOURCE SIMPLE backslash_example
   {
   string="\\text\\";
   }

  generates the output string \text\.

• You can use the syntax number, to specify a character by character code. If a Unicode resource is being created, this must be a Unicode character value.