'How do I escape quotation marks in liquid?

I am working with an input string like 'James "Jim" Smith' with a person's nickname being double quoted within a string. I have been trying to find if a person has a nickname by using the contains operator but it never finds the entries with double quotes. As an example:

<-- Name - James "Jim" Smith -->
{% if Name contains '\"' %}
   Do Something
{% else %}
   Always gets here
{% endif %}

How can I search for the literal double quote in a string using contains (or split)?

liquid


Solution 1:[1]

You don't need to escape it. The following will return true:

{% assign name = 'James "Jim" Smith' %}
{% if name contains '"' %}
  true
{% else %}
  false
{% endif %}

Solution 2:[2]

I found solution for this problem. This is the example for my approach.

{{ post.title | remove: '& quot;'}}

Note: There should be no space between & and quot – I added this to show exactly.

Solution 3:[3]

I have read about escaping both single and double quotes by doubling them and had some success myself doing this...

In my own example I was trying to remove quotes from a string And the following did NOT work:

{{ post.title | remove: """ }}

However this DID work:

{{ post.title | remove: """" }}

I think that would work in your if statement:

{% if name contains '""' %}

But am not sure how that would work where you are assigning the string or if you need to escape it in your "assign"

Solution 4:[4]

With Liquid map I have observed \\\" translates into \"

Solution 5:[5]

If none of the above works for you, try this. It did it for me when removing double quotes:

| remove '"'

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Solution 1 GeorgeButter
Solution 2 Adrian Mole
Solution 3 Wesely
Solution 4 Amit Chaudhary
Solution 5 Dawid Dahl

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