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4.3.4 Quotes Within Strings
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***** NOT YET UPDATED TO CoCoA-5: follow with care *****
Strings are delimited using double quotes (or single quotes, obsolescent).
One may directly use quotes inside a string if they are not
of the same type as the delimiters (i.e. single quotes between double
quotes).
To get double quotes inside a string (which
are of the same type as
the delimiters), the quotes must be
escaped by preceding
them with a backslash.
Note: from 4.7.5 escaping quotes by doubling them is obsolescent.
Print "This string \"contains\" double quotes.";
This string "contains" double quotes.
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Print "This string \"contains\" quotes of 'various' styles.";
This string "contains" quotes of 'various' styles.
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