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of metacharacters that might otherwise be mistaken as commands

Delimiter collision

When using quoting, if one wishes to represent the delimiter itself in a string literal, one runs into the problem of delimiter collision. For example, if the delimiter is a double quote, one cannot simply represent a double quote itself by the literal """ as the second quote is interpreted as the end of the string literal, not as the value of the

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