double quotes
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A “string” is a set of letters the computer can process, surrounded by double quotes.
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2012
Quotation marks in The Victim of Magical Delusion are shown as printed except when there is a mismatch between single and double quotes.
From The New-York Weekly Magazine or Miscellaneous Repository by Various
The following changes have been made to the original text: Page 30: Changed double quotes to single quotes: 'Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye,'Page 64: "reader." changed to "reader,"Page 65: "home," changed to "home."
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton
On several occasions the book uses nested double quotes.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft
The variation between single and double quotes for nested quotations is unchanged.
From Iole by Becker, Arthur C.
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