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

Escaping quotes in velocity template

I have a java method, that takes a few strings. This method needs to be called from a Velocity Template. …

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Triple Quotes? How do I delimit a databound Javascript string parameter in ASP.NET?

How do I delimit a Javascript data-bound string parameter in an anchor OnClick event? I have an anchor tag in …

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What is the difference between square brackets and single quotes for aliasing in SQL Server?

I have seen some people alias column names using single quotes eg: select orderID 'Order No' from orders and others …

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What does single-quoting do in Windows batch files?

I recently ran a command in windows cmd with single quotes in it and found that it did not behave …

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How does the leading dollar sign affect single quotes in Bash?

I need to pass a string to a program as its argument from the Bash CLI, e.g program "don't …

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Are single/double quotes allowed inside HTML attribute values?

I'm trying to set attribute value that contains a single quote: var attr_value = "It's not working"; var html = "<…

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What do single quotes do in C++ when used on multiple characters?

I'm curious about this code: cout << 'test'; // Note the single quotes. gives me an output of 1952805748. My question: …

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Disable automatic doubling of quotes in Notepad++

Notepad++ automatically places another quote if I type a single quote or double quote. How can I disable this?

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PHP static variables in double quotes

How can I get PHP to evaluate a static variable in double quotes? I want to do something like this: …

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Escaping a quote in findstr search string

How can I properly escape a quote in a search string when using findstr.exe? Example: findstr /misc:"namespace=\"" *.cs &…

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