I have a notebook and I enter something like
PlotLabel->"my label with dynamic number "<>ToString[strange]
and I get errors like
However, the double quotes in the input cell were exactly copied and pasted from this posting and they became different on pasting to the notebook: The first one became slanted like a slash, the second like a backslash. There is - as the error message shows - a third type of double quote, a purely vertical one. I am used to Mathematica 4.0 where the vertical one was the one which came when I press Shift-2 and this was the right one to be used for string delimiters.
How do I force Mathematica to always produce the vertical double quote rather than any other flavours of different double quotes - and by the way: what is the significance
- of the double quote slanted like a slash
and
- of the double quote slanted like a backslash
in the *Wolfram Language? (Unfortunately, if I copy them to this posting front end, they all turn to the vertical double quote character).
Addendum (2014-10-17):
If I replace the slanted double quotes by a vertical ones, the plot command works:
whereas this one does not, but maybe the error message gives a hint. It seems to me to be be more a problem of input to Mathematica rather than evaluation of the Wolfram Language:
Today, trying around more with it, I found out that it depends on the notebook: in some notebooks, Shift-2 always delivers vertical double quotes, in some they come as slanted ones, sometimes even the first double quote in a line is a back-slanted one whereas all subsequent double quotes become slash-slanted:
If this matters: The cell in the notebook with the strange double quote behaviour is an input cell, Cell>Convert To> shows "Input Form", the cell is open, editable and evaluatable, the cell bracket is a simple one without any extra decoration at the ends, just plain hook (see screenshots above).
