On Monday, January 17, 2022 at 3:52:13 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote: > I had occasion to SEARCH for the string '' in a file. > > Is there any way to do this? (It gets expanded as an empty symbol; I > don't know how to prevent that.) > $ dsq = "'" + "'" ! make symbol containing 2 single quotes $ search myfile.txt &dsq