How do you put quotation marks in print?

Answered by Randy McIntyre

To put quotation marks in print, you can use a combination of single and double quotes. This allows you to distinguish between quotes within quotes and the outer quotation marks.

For example, if you want to print a phrase that requires quotation marks, you can use single quotes to enclose the whole phrase and double quotes within the phrase. Here’s an example:

Print(‘””A word that needs quotation marks””‘)

This will output: “”A word that needs quotation marks””

But what if you want to print a phrase that includes double quotes within it? In that case, you can use escape characters to indicate that the double quotes should be treated as part of the string and not as the end of the string. Here’s an example:

Print(“”\””A word that needs quotation marks\”””)

The backslash (\) before the double quote (\”) acts as an escape character, telling the interpreter to treat the following double quote as a literal character within the string.

This will output: “”A word that needs quotation marks””

Using this combination of single and double quotes, along with escape characters when necessary, allows you to properly display quotation marks in your printed output.

In summary, to put quotation marks in print, you can use single quotes to enclose the entire string and double quotes within the string. If you need to include double quotes within the string, you can use escape characters (\”) to indicate that they should be treated as part of the string.