How to write the following string ?

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I want to write the following string, but it gives the error - Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

var str=" <span class="math-tex"> /( /sum /) </span> "; 
console.log(str);

Please start with a basic tutorial such as http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/javascript - your error isin your use of " — Toby Allen, Jun 21 '15 at 13:41

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '15 at 13:41

In this case you need to escape the quotes within the declaration of the string.

var str=" <span class=\"math-tex\"> /( /sum /) </span> "; 
console.log(str);

Or use single quotes.

var str=" <span class='math-tex'> /( /sum /) </span> "; 
console.log(str);

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 21 '15 at 13:40

Use single quotes. It fails because your input string contains double quotes and the quotes you actually used to assign that string to a variable is also double quotes. So when the interpreter sees the second double quotes, it would consider that point as end of the string.

var str= ' <span class="math-tex"> /( /sum /) </span> ';

How to write the following string ?

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