Comparison of programming languages (strings): Difference between revisions

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| <tt>"Hello, $name!"</tt>

| PHPBash shell, Perl, Windows PowerShellPHP, BashWindows shellPowerShell

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| <tt>qq(I said "Hello, $name!")</tt>

| Perl (alternate)

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| <tt>"Hello, {$name}!"</tt>

| PHP (alternate)

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| <tt>"Hello, #{name}!"</tt>

| CoffeeScript, Ruby

| Ruby, CoffeeScript

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| <tt>{I said "%Q(Hello, world#{name}!"})</tt>

| Ruby (alternate)

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| <tt>(format t "Hello, ~A" name)</tt>

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| Swift

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=== Escaped quotes ===

"Escaped" quotes means that a 'flag' symbol is used to warn that the character after the flag is used in the string rather than ending the string.

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| <tt>"I said ^"Hello, world!^""</tt>

| REBOL

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| <tt>q({I said "Hello, world!")}</tt>

| REBOL (alternate)

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| <tt>"I said, %"Hello, World!%""</tt>

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| <tt>R"(Hello, world!)"</tt>

| C++11

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=== Multiple quoting ===

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! Syntax

! Language(s)

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| <tt>q(I said "Hello, world!")

qq(I said "Hello, $name!")</tt>

| Perl (raw & interpolated)

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| <tt>%Q(I said "Hello, world!")

%(I said "Hello, world!")</tt>

| Ruby

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| <tt>{I said "Hello, world!"}</tt>

| REBOL

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