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The double quote is ASCII character 34 ("), dual of the single quote. 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 distinct opening and closing quotation marks in ASCII leads to extra contortions for word processing software.

This character is also used to indicate length in inches, or angle or time in seconds.

Common names

  • double quote
  • quotation mark
  • quote

Rare names

  • dirk
  • double-glitch
  • double prime
  • literal mark
  • INTERCAL: rabbit-ears
  • ITU-T: dieresis
  • ITU-T: quotation marks
  • Swedish: dubbelfnutt

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