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The Double quote is 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.

The lack of typographical-style opening and closing quotes in ASCII leads to extra contortions for word processing software.

Common names: quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ITU-T: quotation marks; ITU-T: dieresis; dirk; INTERCAL: rabbit-ears; double prime.

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