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##### 9.33.2.1 Special Characters

The semicolon ; is the line comment character;

The dollar sign $ can be used as a prefix for hexadecimal numbers and as a symbol denoting the current location counter.

A backslash \ is an ordinary character for the Z80 assembler.

The single quote ' must be followed by a closing quote. If there is one character in between, it is a character constant, otherwise it is a string constant.