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- Literal string or character string is a data type in programming languages to represent text.
- Literal in programming, is a notation for specifying a constant value.
- Literal in logical expressions, e.g., DNFs is a variable or a negated variable.
- Literal in regular expressions and in descriptions of formal grammars is a synonym of terminal symbol (which is used in the formal language "literally", rather than generates a chain of substitutions).
- Literal in data compression is a chunk of input data that are represented "as is" in the compressed data.
