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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.

The lack of typographical-style opening and closing quotation marks in ASCII leads to extra contortions for word processing software.

Common names

  • quotation mark
  • quote

Rare names

  • dirk
  • double-glitch
  • double prime
  • INTERCAL: rabbit-ears
  • ITU-T: dieresis
  • ITU-T: quotation marks
  • literal mark


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