“”“I am a “string” “””
works OK - notice the space
“”“I am a “string””“”
does not work - julia expects yet another closing double quote
this seems strange to me!
“”“I am a “string” “””"
this works OK, but has (as far as I understand the theory) one closing double quote too much …
What am I missing?
You need to escape quotation marks in a string with a backslash:
"""I am a \"string\""""
Edit: sorry, I guess from https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/manual/strings/#Triple-Quoted-String-Literals-1 you would think that """I am a "string"""" should work too.
The behavior is different on latest master:
julia> """I am a "string""""
ERROR: syntax: cannot juxtapose string literal
which was a result of https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/20575.
Julia only looks at the triple as an end-marker — the parser isn’t keeping track of open/close “…” pairs inside the triple. Need to escape the first in the ending “”“” sequence.
"""I am a "string"""" is being parsed as """I am a "string""" followed by a ", and that is why (as at-ihnorton) said, the first " in the final sequence needs to be quoted.
If you have wish to have more than 2 " in a row in a triple-quoted string, then you need to use \ on every 3rd one, for example, to have 6 " inside a triple-quoted string, you’d need to have ""\"""\".
That’s what I realized later. Thx to all!