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Literal is a notation for representing a fixed value in source code
Ex: String Literal
A string literal is a type of literal in programming for the representation of string value in source code of computer program (let x = "foo bar")
Most of the modern languages use balanced delimiters like double quotes or single quotes
For example x = "foo" the double quotes are not part of a string, they are delimiters
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