double quotes
Americanplural noun
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A “string” is a set of letters the computer can process, surrounded by double quotes.
From Slate • Mar. 15, 2012
Page 7: Double quotes inside double quotes in Hallam quotation replaced with single quotes.
From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)
Also, many occurrences of mismatched single and double quotes remain as published.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
Inconsistent use of single and double quotes around words and the placing of punctuation either within or external to quotes has been left as-is.
From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Pfungst, Oskar
Double quotes are nested within double quotes, and where this results in 2 doublequotes closing off a speech, one is omitted.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Hunt, Henry
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