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title: "Would you initialize your strings with single quotes or double quotes?"  
description: "Would you initialize your strings with single quotes or double quotes?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2012-05-04  
updated: 2020-09-19  
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# Would you initialize your strings with single quotes or double quotes?

Since the data inside the single-quoted string is not parsed for variable substitution, it’s always a better idea speed-wise to initialize a string with single quotes, unless you specifically need variable substitution.\

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

Since the data inside the single-quoted string is not parsed for variable substitution, it’s always a better idea speed-wise to initialize a string with single quotes, unless you specifically need variable substitution.\


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