AutoGen - The Automated Program Generator: 2.2.3 Single Quote String

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### 2.2.3 Single Quote String

This is similar to the shell single-quote string. However, escapes `\` are honored before another escape, single quotes `'` and hash characters `#`. This latter is done specifically to disambiguate lines starting with a hash character inside of a quoted string. In other words,

    fumble = '
    #endif
    ';

could be misinterpreted by the definitions scanner, whereas this would not:

    fumble = '
    \#endif
    ';

As with the double quote string, a series of these, even intermixed with double quote strings, will be concatenated together.

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