The single-quote character (')
Questions tagged [apostrophe]
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Is it correct to use single quotes for HTML attributes?
Recently I've been seeing a lot of this:
Is it valid to use single quotes in HTML? As I've highlighted…
Is it valid to use single quotes in HTML? As I've highlighted…
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HTML Best Practices: Should I use ’ or the special keyboard shortcut?
I know that ’ will produce an apostrophe in an HTML document.
I also know that option shift right bracket on a Mac will simply produce a ’ character.
Are there best practices for writing code, e.g., should I write
The User’s…
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What is ' and why does Google search replace it with apostrophe?
In what language does and - hash - three - nine - semicolon (') represent the apostrophe? I had some website data extracted in JSON format where some of the user comments had apostrophe which were replaced by '.
So, what representation it…
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Clojure - difference between ' (apostrophe) and ` (backtick)
I'm fairly new to Clojure and I'm not sure I completely understand the difference between apostrophe and backtick in Clojure.
(def x 5)
;; Question 1
(+ x x) ;; evaluates to 10
'(+ x x) ;; evaluates to (+ x x)
`(+ x x) ;; evaluates to…
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How do I search for names with apostrophe in SQL Server?
SELECT *
FROM Header
WHERE (userID LIKE [%'%])
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Excel escaping quotes or apostrophes in cell values
I get a lot of database information from clients in excel spreadsheets. I frequently need to insert/update this data back into the database.
I often use excel to generate the insert and update statements via concatenating a bunch of cells together.…
Mir
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Difference (if there is any) between ` and ' in javascript
Recently ran into some JS code that uses ` and '. I can't figure out if there is a different use for each apostrophe. Is there any?
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Adding Apostrophe in a string - Matlab
I want to put an apostrophe in a string to denote the possessive but it ends the string, how can I put one in.
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How to fix syntax error when printing a string with an apostrophe in it?
When I am trying to print a string like the one below which uses an apostrophe in the sentence,
print(''I am jack's raging bile duct'')
I get a syntax error. How to fix this?
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apostrophe turning into \x92
mycorpus.txt
Human where's machine interface for lab abc computer applications
A where's survey of user opinion of computer system response time
stopwords.txt
let's
ain't
there's
The following code
corpus = set()
for line in…
Pankaj Singhal
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Can't use apostrophe in StringFormat of a XAML binding?
I'm trying use StringFormat to insert apostrophies (apostrophe's?) around a value that is bound to a TextBlock:
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How do I escape an apostrophe in my XPath text query with Perl and Selenium?
I have an XPath query which needs to match some text in a span attribute, as follows:
my $perl_query = qq(span[text\(\)='It's a problem']);
$sel->click_ok($perl_query);
Where the text has no apostrophe there is no problem.
I've tried the following…
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Clojure when is an apostrophe needed before vector
from "The Joy of Clojure" book:
first example:
(def fifth (comp first rest rest rest rest))
(fifth [1 2 3 4 5])
;=> e
second example:
(defn fnth [n]
(apply comp
(cons first
(take (dec n) (repeat rest)))))
((fnth 5) '[a b c d e])
;=>…
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Mysql + php with special characters like '(Apostrophe) and " (Quotation mark)
I have been struggling with a small problem for a while. It's been there for years but it's just been an irritating problem and not a serious one, and I have just worked around it. But now I want to find out if anyone can help me. I have done some…
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PHP Array access without quotes
I knocked to a phenomenon in an existing php source,
with field access without apostrophe like this: $_GET[test].
I got unsure, also don't know, that this is a possible way,
so I wrote a short example for testing:
echo "Array Test, fields without…
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