Top "Quotes" questions

Computer programming languages' facility for embedding text in source code, also known as String literals

What's the easiest way to add a quote box to mediawiki?

I installed mediawiki on my server as my personal knowledge base. Sometimes I copy some stuff from Web and paste …

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How can I include special characters (tab, newline) in a python doctest result string?

Given the following python script: # dedupe.py import re def dedupe_whitespace(s,spacechars='\t '): """Merge repeated whitespace …

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Escape Quotes In HTML5 Data Attribute Using Javascript

I'm using jQuery's .data() to work with custom HTML5 data attributes where the value of the attribute needs to be …

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Variable containing multiple args with quotes in Bash

I generate a bash variable containing all my args and those args contain spaces. When I launch a command with …

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When to use triple single quotes instead of triple double quotes

Learn Python the hard way, exercise 10.2: tabby_cat = "\tI'm tabbed in." persian_cat = "I'm split\non a line." backslash_cat = "…

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Bash quoted array expansion

WHen I write a bash program I typically construct calls like follows: declare -a mycmd=( command.ext "arg1 with space" …

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Remembering a quote from Alan Kay

Alan Kay was quoted several years ago to the effect that there had been only three new things in software …

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How does bash deal with nested quotes?

I need to run a command with a syntax like this: runuser -l userNameHere -c '/path/to/command arg1 …

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Can an integer column be null?

I made an integer column that is null by default but when I put empty double quotes "" it gives this …

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How can I escape single and double quotes in SQL prepared statement?

I have a SQL statement similar to the one shown below in Perl: my $sql="abc..TableName '$a','$…

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