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         https://janet-lang.org/docs/strings.html  | 
  
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         There isn't a syntax for character literals AFAIU, however you can do a compile-time thing with: (chr "a")
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97Note that this only works for strings of length one - so in janet's case that means a single byte.  | 
  
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There isn't a syntax for character literals AFAIU, however you can do a compile-time thing with:
Note that this only works for strings of length one - so in janet's case that means a single byte.