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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: replacing " with `` and ''
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Date: 4 May 91 19:41:41 GMT
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In article <1991May4.184851.3472@athena.mit.edu>, bjaspan@athena (Barr3y Jaspan) writes:
>[Instead of counting quote marks, check the context to determine if it's an
>opening or closing quotation mark.]

This method is more robust in the sense that it doesn't cause problems
if your text contains nested quotations

  I wrote, "She said, `He said, "Ouch!"'"

or long quotations

  "This is a long quoted section of text that goes on for pages and
  pages.

  "Which means that you never see a closing quotation mark until the
  quotation is ended, but you'll see lots of opening quotation marks
  at the beginning of each paragraph."

or places where the symbol is not used as a quotation mark

  I'm not very tall; only 5'3".

or even just typos

  I wrote, "This is a long quotation, and I forgot to put a closing
  quotation mark at the end.  Later, I also wrote, "Another thing
  that I wrote."

What does this have to do with perl?  Beats me.

  was not a very useful reply.