Use the " character in a string

Question

Hello I would like to use the character "in a string variable like this:

std::string hello = """;

Is it possible to do such a thing or am I talking nonsense? Thanks in advance!

Reading your C++ book or [documentation](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/string_literal) is recommended in such cases. — Marek R, Jun 09 '21 at 10:11
duplicates: [Printing variable in quotation marks C++](https://stackoverflow.com/q/53110030/995714), [Include double-quote (") in C-string](https://stackoverflow.com/q/20458489/995714) — phuclv, Jun 09 '21 at 10:18

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '21 at 10:08

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Just escape it:

std::string hello = "\"";

answered Jun 09 '21 at 10:08

David Schwartz

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 09 '21 at 10:10

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You have several ways, including:

answered Jun 09 '21 at 10:10

Jarod42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 09 '21 at 10:13

You can either use the escaped character like

    std::string hello( "\"" );

or

    std::string hello = "\"";

or use a constructor that accepts a character literal like

std::string hello( 1, '"' );

Or you can use even a raw string literal like

std::string hello( R"(")" );

or

std::string hello = R"(")";

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