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Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings

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Abhisek Pattnaik 2015-12-25 03:52:26 +05:30 committed by SaintPeter
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"id": "56533eb9ac21ba0edf2244b5",
"title": "Escaping Literal Quotes in Strings",
"description": [
"When you are defining a string you must start and end with a double or single quote. What happens when you need a <dfn>literal</dfn> quote inside of your string?",
"In Javascript you can <dfn>escape</dfn> a quote inside a string by placing a <dfn>backslash</dfn> (<code>\\</code>) in front of the quote. This signals Javascript that the following quote is not the end of the string, but should instead should appear inside the string.",
"When you are defining a string you must start and end with a single or double quote. What happens when you need a literal quote: <code>\"</code> or <code>'</code> inside of your string?",
"In JavaScript, you can <dfn>escape</dfn> a quote from considering it as an end of string quote by placing a <dfn>backslash</dfn> (<code>\\</code>) in front of the quote.",
"<code>\"Alan said, \\\"Peter is learning JavaScript\\\".\"</code>",
"This signals JavaScript that the following quote is not the end of the string, but should instead appear inside the string.",
"<h4>Instruction</h4>",
"Use <dfn>backslashes</dfn> to assign the following to <code>myStr</code>:<br /><code>\"I am a \"double quoted\" string inside \"double quotes\"\"</code>"
"Use <dfn>backslashes</dfn> to assign the following to <code>myStr</code> variable:",
"<code>\"I am a \"double quoted\" string inside \"double quotes\"\"</code>"
],
"releasedOn": "11/27/2015",
"tests": [