Computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in source code, also known as String literals
In plain English: String literals can be enclosed in matching single quotes (') or double quotes (").
Questions tagged [quotes]
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javascript: quotes problem: doesn't work?
Why does this not work, but is ok for "Y-m-d"?
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?>
On the page it looks…
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Executing Linux commands with double quotes
So I am trying to figure out this weird behavior.
$ hello hello
-ksh: hello: not found [No such file or directory]
$ "hello hello"
-ksh: hello hello: not found [No such file or directory]
$ echo hello hello
hello hello
$ `echo hello…
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3-layer Nested Quotes (bash)
Exuse: I know there are many questions about nested quotes but the answers to those I found are so specific to the questions that I wasn't able to apply them.
I need to use multiple nested bash commands. The first two layers are
x-terminal-emulator…
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bash: construct command line parts in function, to be interpreted as separate arguments (including quotes)
I want to perform a shell command like this:
convert input.png -pointsize 40 -font "$HOME/Library/Fonts/Droid Sans.ttf" \
-background black -fill red -stroke blue label:"Foo Bar" \
-gravity center -composite output.png
But it's part of a script…
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Single and Double Quote Issue using GAWK
I have been helped with the following GAWK command line in Windows
gawk "{a = gensub(/([0-9]{6} [0-9]{6} [0-9]{4}).*itemId=, "\\2 \\1", "g", $0); b = split(a, c, " "); if (c[1] in result) result[c[1]] = gensub(/(.+),(.+)/, "\\1," c[2] " " c[3] " "…
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Java : add quotes to data in a CSV file
I am trying to add quotes to data in a CSV file. Below is the approach i have done it. I am sure there is a simpler way using regex or other methods. Would like to know that.
public List addQuotes2List(List list, String…
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call program with arguments from an array containing items from another array wrapped in double quotes
(This is a more specific version of the problem discussed in bash - expand arguments from array containing double quotes
.)
I want bash to call cmake with arguments from an array with double quotes which itself contain items from another array. Here…
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Everyday new content on Application
I have a list of quotes.
I want to have a label that changes every 24H to a new Quote.
How can I do this? Like how can I manage a day?
I know I could just use an API but I want to use my own quotes and I am not able to create an API on my own…
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Python not recognizing quotes
What I want to do is very straight forward.
Retrieve text from a file
If the text contains any quotes, get the text inside the quotes.
To do that I am using this regex, borrowed from another post.
re.findall('"([^"]*)"', text)
The problem I…
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Parsing MySQL rows to JavaScript with PHP
Hi guys can't seem to use MySQL row values in JavaScript. I've tried all kinds of quote and double-quote combinations.
$sql = "SELECT desk_id, desk_x, desk_y FROM desks";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
while($row =…
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PHP - Echoing multiple nested quotes of HTML
I'm attempting to echo the following line of HTML through PHP
echo "
".$formattedDate." @ $time
"; I don't get an error. But…
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Can I use jquery selector quote child iframe's global variable？
I need create a iframe dynamically in my page,when I closed it ,it will be removed from my page.
(In fact it jquery plugin "fancybox")
It always the last iframe.I want quote the page's global variable in the iframe.So I think the…
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Valid MYSQL SELECT Query not working on PHP
Ok, so here is my headache:
I got a database that contains a lot of texts (big ones) and I am running a VALID MYSQL query.
I wont post the BIG text here because it is useless, lets do the following.
My PHP is listening on UDP por 8000
My software…
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Python and MySQL query with quotes
With a script in Python3, after extracting some strings from a file, they should be used as data to be inserted into a MySQL database as follows:
query1 = """INSERT INTO {:s} VALUES ({:s}, {:s}, {:s},…
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adding quotes to javascript array list in which each element is in a quote like below
How do I change this array list:
var array1 = ["test, test1"];
to show like below:
var array2 = ["test", "test1"]
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