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### 5.3 Strings delimited by double quotes "

The double quote, ‘`"`’, may be used to delimit strings, in addition to the single quote ‘`'`’. See the previous example. Also, double-quoted strings include backslash interpretation (like C++, C, and Perl) while single quoted are uninterpreted (like Matlab and Perl).