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Created July 28, 2011 02:11
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strings.php
<html>
<body>
<p> Jeff Buckley is playing on the radio, and I like it. </p>
<p> It's John's birthday. He's so old! </p>
<?php print "Jerad said, \"Awesome!\" in response to my last assignment."; ?>
<?php print 'But this one I didn\'t quite get at first.'; ?>
<p> Using Github to host these code snippets will work well. </p>
</body>
</html>
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So you can see here, that if you're using doube quotes to print a string, and you want the result of the print statement to actually print out any double quotes as well, you must first escape them with a backslash.

The same goes for the single quote.

But you are correct in that you do not have to escape a double quote if your print statement is using single quotes. Nor vice-versa.

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toddota commented Jul 28, 2011

Ahh- I see!! I actually had the the top red line right at first but then I changed it cause I thought it was only with single quotes. Sweet. Thanks for clarifying Jerad

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