5.2.2 .pascii “string₁” | <##>₁ [, ..., “string_n” | <##>_n]

Assembles each string (with no automatic trailing zero byte) or <##> into successive bytes into program memory, including the upper byte. <##> is a way of specifying a character by its ASCII code. For example, given that the ASCII code for a new line character is 0xa, the following two lines are equivalent:

.pascii “hello\n”,“line 2\n”
.pascii “hello”,<0xa>,“line 2”,<0xa>

If the ## is not a number, 0 will be assembled. If the ## is greater than 255, then the value will be truncated to a byte.