as: Z80-Chars

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1 9.56.2.1 Special Characters
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1 The semicolon ';' is the line comment character;
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1    If a '#' appears as the first character of a line then the whole line
1 is treated as a comment, but in this case the line could also be a
1 logical line number directive (⇒Comments) or a preprocessor
1 control command (⇒Preprocessing).
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1    The Z80 assembler does not support a line separator character.
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1    The dollar sign '$' can be used as a prefix for hexadecimal numbers
1 and as a symbol denoting the current location counter.
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1    A backslash '\' is an ordinary character for the Z80 assembler.
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1    The single quote ''' must be followed by a closing quote.  If there
1 is one character in between, it is a character constant, otherwise it is
1 a string constant.
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