21.4.1 String Read Syntax

The read syntax for strings is an arbitrarily long sequence of characters enclosed in double quotes (").¹ If you want to insert a double quote character into a string literal, it must be prefixed with a backslash \ character (called an escape character).

The following are examples of string literals:

     "foo"
     "bar plonk"
     "Hello World"
     "\"Hi\", he said."