Basic Examples 
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Without wrapping the output in
ShowQuotes
, the front end defaults to suppress presentation of the quotation marks. The
ShowQuotes
function styles the output so that the quotation marks are visible:
In[1]:=
"This is a quote",
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ShowQuotes
["This is a quote"]
Out[1]=
{This is a quote,"This is a quote"}
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If there are no quotation marks in the input, no quotation marks appear in the output:
In[1]:=
[◼]
ShowQuotes
[34]
Out[1]=
34
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Nested quotation marks appear with the backslash escape character:
In[1]:=
"Hamelet said, \"To be or not to be\"",
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ShowQuotes
["Hamelet said, \"To be or not to be\""]
Out[1]=
{Hamelet said, "To be or not to be","Hamelet said, \"To be or not to be\""}

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