Questions related to the use of single-quotes in different programming languages.
Questions tagged [single-quotes]
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How to add apostrophe as allowed character to existing regular expression?
I have the following regular expression for one of my name fields in C# web app:
^[A-Za-zÀ-ſ0-9.,#&-/'_!@;]?[a-zA-ZÀ-ſ0-9 '#&-/.,_:!@;]*[A-Za-zÀ-ſ0-9.,#-/_!@;]$
How can I properly modify it to add apostrophe/single quote character (') as an allowed…

Tom S
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How to insert query into mysql with single quotes
I want to insert a query into a database which contain single quotes within the value. How can I handle this in PHP?
My query is:
insert into query (date_time, userid, user_traits, query_sql, status, description, is_scheduled_row)
values…

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Saving html code to a database if the font family has double quotes?
I do a simple text editor. With the javascript select option I add font-family to innline-style and change the font-family style. After that I need to ajax-save the html in the mysql database.
If font-family doesn't have duplicate quotes like Arial,…

borma
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How to include 2 single quotes in a variable in sql server
Below line is returning me the value with single quote.
set @SearchStr2= upper(QUOTENAME('%''' + @SearchStr + '''%','''') )COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS;
Actual Output : '%'NM'%'
Expected Output : '%''NM''%' -- Need 2 single quotes before…

Indhu
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Bash is adding extra single quote while running a command
While running the command through script, Bash is expanding TLS_CERT variable with extra single quotes, which is making my command to fail.
I have put simplified code here for readable format
Can anybody please suggest how to avoid…

Krohit
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it's instead of it's in python string
My python string consists of ' instead of ' (single quotes). My current objective is to expand compound words like It's to It is, Haven't to Have not.
"This has been great for me. I've been on it for 2 weeks and in the last week I only…

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Is there a way to alternate single and double quotes in C# like you can in javascript?
In javascript I can write
var s = 'He said "Hello" to me';
or
var s = "don't be sad";
In other words, if I want a double quote in the string, I can declare the string using single quotes. If I want a single quote in the string, I can…

rocketsarefast
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remove quotes from output of python dictionaries
I am new to python and I am stuck in a situation here!
I have stored strings in a python dictionary and when I try to extract it python is wrapping single quotes around the value and giving it back. How can I get rid of the single quotes?
Example…

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how to convert single quotes string to number in python
I have a number of type string with single quotes. e,g
var = '2,000'
type(var) #
I want to convert it to int.
I have tried int(var) But it gives an error
invalid literal for int() with base 10: '2,000'

keerthan kumar
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php if then else statement syntax error somewhere
So I am getting the following parse error when this file loads:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE),
expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or number
(T_NUM_STRING)
I have tried…

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Simple quote in variable in javascript
I would like to accept simple quotes into a string without crashing my curl request.
here my curl request :
curl -XGET "localhost:9200/test/all/_search?pretty" -d \'{"query":"'+question+'"}\'';
If question = 'It's OK'.
I will have an error durong…

onedkr
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Replace double consecutive single quotation mark
I'm trying to replace double consecutive single quotation marks to null, like this:
//my string is " replace '' to null "
str.Replace("''", "null");
//now my string is " replace null to null "
But this is happening:
//my string is " replace '' to…

fkupper
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where clause without single quote in set?
I have a set statement. I am trying to add a where statement inside that. However, when I put a single quote, it is not executing. How to escape the single quote in where clause to execute the set statement? Below is my code:
DECLARE @desttablename…

Sriram NR
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Use single quotes ( ' ) as a variable value
I recently installed qtile which is written and configured in python and I'm used to have a keybinding which includes single quotes '. This command is working :
Keys = [
Key(
["mod4"], "m",
…

ATR
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How to remove single quote and put double quotes in the array of objects in javascript
I want to remove single quotes and put double quotes in the array of objects in javascript.
var arr=[{ email: 'abc@gmail.com', name: 'Abc' },
{ email: 'def@hotmail.com', name: 'Dr.Def' },
{ email: 'xyz@gmail.com', name: 'Xyz' },
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Khyati Sharma
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