How to preserve apostrophe sign in a string in Matlab?

I am facing a problem while working with a string which has two or more apostrophe ( ' ) signs. When I run a function on it, it automatically erase all apostrophe signs except one. Can you provide me any solution for this?

x = 'La drôle de tête du râteau est posée contre le mûr près de l''abîme'; %Input String
Output = 'La drole de tete du rateau est posee contre le mur près de l''abime' % What I need to get

Ignore the French accents. Everytime I run the code, only one apostrophe sign left in the string.

Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Enclose the apostrophes in apostrophes —

x = 'La drôle de tête du râteau est posée contre le mûr près de l''''abîme';
sprintf('%s',x)

ans = 'La drôle de tête du râteau est posée contre le mûr près de l''abîme'

Alternatively —

x = 'La drôle de tête du râteau est posée contre le mûr près de l''abîme';
sprintf('%s',x)

ans = 'La drôle de tête du râteau est posée contre le mûr près de l'abîme'

To get a slightly different result.

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[Steven Lord]

Alternately create a string array instead of a char array.

s = "Here's how you include a single quote in a string"

s = "Here's how you include a single quote in a string"

c = 'Here''s how you include a single quote in a char'

c = 'Here's how you include a single quote in a char'

s2 = sprintf("Two single quotes '' is no problem in a string")

s2 = "Two single quotes '' is no problem in a string"

[Stephen23]

"Enclose the apostrophes in apostrophes"

They are escaped rather than enclosed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character