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Gihan
Gihan

Reputation: 2536

escape code \" prints both \". Anyway to put a " in to a string.?

let ans = stringConcat ["<a href=","\"",str,"\"",">",strr,"</a>"]
                putStr ("\nOutput :" ++show (ans))

when I print this answer is Output :"<a href=\"www.test.com\">testing</a>" I want to know why the extra \ is printing. \" suppose to be the escape code for double quotes. yet again it prints both \". I want to know why this happening and is there any way to put a " is side a string..?

concat function

stringConcat::[String]->String 
stringConcat xs= concat xs

Upvotes: 9

Views: 9375

Answers (3)

hammar
hammar

Reputation: 139890

Yes, \" is the correct escape code for double quotes, so the string ans contains the double quotes as you expected.

The problem is that you're then using show, which is a function for showing values like they would appear in Haskell code, which means that strings with double quotes in them have to be escaped.

> putStrLn (show "I said \"hello\".")
"I said \"hello\"."

So if you don't want that, just don't use show:

> putStrLn "I said \"hello\"."
I said "hello".

Upvotes: 19

ivanm
ivanm

Reputation: 3927

Don't show a String.

let ans = stringConcat ["<a href=","\"",str,"\"",">",strr,"</a>"]
putStr ("\nOutput :" ++ ans)

Also, what is stringConcat?

Upvotes: 7

XepterX
XepterX

Reputation: 1011

why don't you try this 

let ans = stringConcat ["<a href=","'",str,"'",">",strr,"</a>"]

Upvotes: 1

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