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Double quote
The double quote is ASCII character 34 ("). Often used in programming languages to delimit strings. In Unix shells and Perl it delimits a string inside which variable substitution may occur.
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The lack of typographical-style opening and closing quotation marks in ASCII leads to extra contortions for word processing software.
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