Questions tagged [quotation-marks]

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regex find a line have wrong quotation marks

hi i need help to find a line have error quotation marks. 1 "many word " "many word" "many word " 2 "many word " " <-Error quotation 3 "many word " "many word " " many word " " many word " " <-Error quotation 4 """ but this quotation not…
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Filter out words depending on surrounding punctuation

Objective: I'm looking for a way to match or skip words based on whether or not they are surrounded by quotations marks ' ', guillemets « » or parentheses ( ). Examples of desired results: len(re.findall("my word", "blablabla 'my word' blablabla"))…
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removing unwanted quotes from a string Javascript

I have a string that outputs like this: "firstName" "lastName" I need to the output to be like "firtName lastName" or else I get bad string request. I have tried different regex combinations that could achieve that however so far I can remove the…
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Output table from SQL into csv format and add quotation marks around a column

I am want to output a table from SQL as csv but I want to add quotation marks around the last column. The name of the table I have in SQL is dbo.temp_table: The output I want is a csv file, that when opened in notepad, the last column has double…
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Output should look like a quotation

I am trying to print a quotation and the name of the author. My output should look something like the following (including the quotation): Albert Einstein once said, "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." I tried this: quote…
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Sending a string that contains quotations to a file with VBA

I am trying to use VBA build a .jet file, but when I try to append, two possible problems appear. Either it includes all double quotes including the double double quotes like you would normally do in, say, a msgbox, or the string wont work if i…
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In Quanteda, how can we match quotation marks literally?

Brief question as I'm trying to match quotation marks in a sentence token using Quanteda's tokens_lookup() function and valuetype="regex". Based on the information provided here on the regex flavor Quanteda uses, I thought the way to go with would…
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How to remove unnecessary single quotation marks (') from column names in a R data frame?

unfortunately I have got colnames, which all have additional single quotation marks like here: x <- data.frame(c(11,21,31),c(12,22,32),c(13,23,33)) colnames(x) <- c("'A'","'B'","'C'") So my question is, if I can get rid of those "'" for my entire…
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JavaScript splitting String with multiple quotation marks and different IDs

I have Strings which look like this one, but with different Id. [{"Id":33,"Title":"Sweden, Stockholm - Järfälla: Dienstag, 31. Januar 2017 - Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2017"}] How can I split them so that they become: Sweden, Stockholm - Järfälla:…
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How do I determine how many parameters to use in a function

I'm new to Python and have been trying to learn Python from Codeacademy. This is my first post here. Here is the sample code (answer) given by Codeacademy. proprietary_terms = ["she", "personality matrix", "sense of self", "self-preservation",…
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Equivalent function to excel's replace

I would like to add quotation marks to hundreds of words (surrounded by blank spaces) and separate them by a comma. Preferably, by using only one or a few functions to avoid a manual replacement due to temporal expenditure. Exemplary Problem: words…
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r - roxygen documentation - escape quotation marks on separate lines

I am working on documentation for a function in my package. Below is the section of the help file that throws errors with roxygen2: #' Solve the Colebrook-White equation to obtain the Darcy-Weisbach friction factor #' #' This function \"provides the…
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python: Removing all kinds of quotation marks

I have the following string: txt="Daniel's car é à muito esperto" I am trying to remove all kinds of quotation marks. I tried: txt=re.sub(r"\u0022\u201C\u201D\u0027\u2019\u2018\u2019\u0060\u00B4\'\"", ' ', txt) I expected: "Daniel s car é à muito…
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Is there a simple way to represent quotation marks in a xsl-stylesheet?

I want to output an XML File. In this XML File there is a tag with attribute-content inside quotation marks. How do i have to alter the XSL-Stylesheet to accomplish this? I didn't find any other entry here that solves this problem. How do I create…
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sql server unclosed quotation mark because insert a string with 's

I am trying to write extended properties to each column of a table from python. Here is my code: for i in dat.columns: sql_query = """\ EXEC sys.sp_addextendedproperty @name = N'Description', …
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