[Nix-dev] Empty string in single quotes

Christian Theune ct at flyingcircus.io
Tue Mar 8 10:30:29 CET 2016


Hi,

there’s a short paragraph in the manual:

https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#idm46912467695696 <https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#idm46912467695696>

The result would be:
	‘'
	‘’'
	‘'

A single quote is used to quoute two-single-quotes. I had to read this thrice, too. :)

Christian

> On 08 Mar 2016, at 10:24, Игорь Пашев <pashev.igor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> 
> How can I write an empty string between single quotes
> when using two single quotes syntax?
> 
> This does the trick:
> ''
> ${"''"}
> ''
> 
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