String

String values within CQL are represented using single-quotes:

'active'

CQL supports string values up to 2³¹-1 characters in length.

For string literals, CQL uses standard escape sequences:

Escape	Character
\'	Single-quote
\"	Double-quote
\r	Carriage Return
\n	Line Feed
\t	Tab
\f	Form Feed
\uXXXX	Unicode character, where XXXX is the hexadecimal representation of the character