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Quotation Marks

You do not need to enclose simple (one-word) strings in quotation marks.

However, you must quote complex (many-word) strings. Within a quoted string, you can use a backslash (\) as an escape mechanism for the following cases:

Reason for Using Quotes

Example

String

String already contains quotes

my “favorite” car

"my \"favorite\" car"

String already contains a backslash

c:\myfile

"c:\\myfile"

String contains UTF-8 characters

Jürgen Weiß

"J\xC3\xBCrgen Wei\xC3\9Fx"