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Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings

Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings

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Hints

Hint 1

• When you need to use a special character such as " inside a string you need to escape it using \.
• If you use double quotes " for the string, single quotes ' in the string do not need to be escaped.
• If you use single quotes ' for the string, double quotes " in the string do not need to be escaped.

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Solutions

Solution 1 (Click to Show/Hide)

var myStr = 'I am a "double quoted" string inside "double quotes".';
var otherStr = "I am a 'single quoted' string inside 'single quotes'.";
var noEscapeSingle = "There is no need to 'escape' the single quotes.";
var noEscapeDouble = 'There is no need to "escape" the double quotes.';