Quotation marks or inverted commas (also informally quotes, and occasionally speech marks) are
punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.They have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media:For languages other than English see
Quotation mark, non-English usageFor the various glyphs used in computer languages to define quotation marks see
Quotation mark glyphsFor those fragments of a human expression placed inside quotation marks see
Quotation.
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character> '"'
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.
Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch;
ITU-T: quotation marks;
ITU-T: dieresis; dirk;
INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.
(1995-03-28)