What are the different types of literals?

A literal is a textual representation of a particular value of a type.
The different types of literals in Visual Basic are:

  • Boolean Literals – Refers to the True and False literals that map to the true and false state, respectively.
  • Integer Literals – Refers to literals that can be decimal (base 10), hexadecimal (base 16), or octal (base 8).
  • Floating-Point Literals – Refers to an integer literal followed by an optional decimal point By default, a floating-point literal is of type Double.
  • String Literals – Refers to a sequence of zero or more Unicode characters beginning and ending with an ASCII double-quote character.
  • Character Literals – Represents a single Unicode character of the Char type.
  • Date Literals – Represents time expressed as a value of the Date type.
  • Nothing – Refers to a literal that does not have a type and is convertible to all types in the type system.

The different types of literals in C# are:

  • Boolean literals – Refers to the True and False literals that map to the true and false states, respectively.
  • Integer literals – Refers to literals that are used to write values of types int, uint, long, and ulong.
  • Real literals – Refers to literals that are used to write values of types float, double, and decimal.
  • Character literals – Represents a single character that usually consists of a character in quotes, such as ‘a’.
  • String literals – Refers to string literals, which can be of two types in C#:
    • A regular string literal consists of zero or more characters enclosed in double quotes, such as “hello”.
    • A verbatim string literal consists of the @ character followed by a double-quote character, such as @”hello”.
  • The Null literal – Represents the null-type.
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