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Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide

You're reading from   Julia 1.0 Programming Complete Reference Guide Discover Julia, a high-performance language for technical computing

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Published in May 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838822248
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Installing the Julia Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Variables, Types, and Operations 3. Functions 4. Control Flow 5. Collection Types 6. More on Types, Methods, and Modules 7. Metaprogramming in Julia 8. I/O, Networking, and Parallel Computing 9. Running External Programs 10. The Standard Library and Packages 11. Creating Our First Julia App 12. Setting Up the Wiki Game 13. Building the Wiki Game Web Crawler 14. Adding a Web UI for the Wiki Game 15. Implementing Recommender Systems with Julia 16. Machine Learning for Recommender Systems 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Raw string literals

If you need to define a string that does not perform interpolation or escaping, for example to represent code from another language that might contain $ and \ which can interfere with the Julia parser, you can use raw strings. They are constructed with raw"..." and create ordinary String objects that contain the enclosed characters exactly as entered, with no interpolation or escaping:

julia> "This $will error out" 
ERROR: UndefVarError: will not defined 

Putting a $ inside the string will cause Julia to perform interpolation and look for a variable called will:

julia> raw"This $will work" 
"This \$will work" 

But by using a raw string, the $ symbol will be ignored (or rather, automatically escaped, as you can see in the output).

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