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ShowStringCharacters

is an option for Cell that specifies whether to display " when a string is entered.

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ShowStringCharacters

ShowStringCharacters

is an option for Cell that specifies whether to display " when a string is entered.

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By default, quotation marks are shown around strings in input cells, but not in output cells:

Create a cell in "Output" style but with quotation marks showing:

Show a grid of characters without quotation marks:

Wolfram Research (1996), ShowStringCharacters, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowStringCharacters.html.

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Wolfram Research (1996), ShowStringCharacters, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowStringCharacters.html.

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Wolfram Language. 1996. "ShowStringCharacters." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowStringCharacters.html.

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Wolfram Language. (1996). ShowStringCharacters. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowStringCharacters.html

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@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_showstringcharacters, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ShowStringCharacters}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowStringCharacters.html}", note=[Accessed: 28-August-2025]}

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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_showstringcharacters, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ShowStringCharacters}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ShowStringCharacters.html}, note=[Accessed: 28-August-2025]}