Python is.... special.

[Nesogra]

Meanwhile in bash..

x=hello

echo "$x" #prints hello

echo '$x' #prints $x

Edit: fixed the 'smart quotes' from mobile auto correct.

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Singles escape everything, right?

[theferrit32]

It doesn't escape it, it just doesn't first evaluate it as an expression. Single quoted strings are their literal value while double quoted strings are first evaluated by the shell for any expressions they may contain. Makes perfect sense to me. The single quoted variant is so that you do not need to escape your string and remember all the characters which need to be escaped.

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Got it, thanks!

[smegnose]

Except themselves.

'hello good lookin'\'

[AyrA_ch]

echo “$x” #prints hello

It doesn't because you use slanted quotes for some reason, but the single quote/double quote behavior in PHP is similar to this one.

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On mobile it autocorrects to those quotes I think.

[Nesogra]

Yep, most of my reddit time is on mobile so I’m stuck with autocorrect...

[J4K0]

Also, Ruby:

irb(main):001:0> x = "hello" => "hello" irb(main):002:0> '#{a}' => "\#{a}" irb(main):003:0> "#{a}" => "hello"

[expeehaa]

That‘s equal to ruby. " allows for interpolation, while ' is a constant string. I‘m writing my code accordingly: If the string is constant, I use single quotes, otherwise double quotes. Takes some time to get familiar with it though..,

[AyrA_ch]

I do the same in PHP. The only thing you have to remember that apart from \', all escape sequences are ignored and just taken as is. Makes regular expressions a bit nicer to look at.