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Writing Text in a Scrape Instruction

To write text in a scrape instruction you create strings which are just a series of characters. A string is delimited by double (") or single quotes ('). If a string is started with a double quote it must end with a double quote, if a string starts with a single quote it must end with a single quote. For instance:

"my-class" and 'my-class'

A common error that can occur is the unclosed string error, this is when a string does not have a closing quote as shown above or there is a line break in the string. The following are illegal strings:

"my
class"

"my class

To fix this error is to ensure they do not contain line breaks and have matching quotes, like so:

"my class" and "my class"

Sometimes you want a single or double quote to appear in a string. The easiest way to do this is to put a single quote in a string delimited with double quotes and a double quote in a string delimited with single quotes, like so:

"Bob's shop" and '"The best store on the web"'

Alternatively you can use a backslash to escape a quote like so:

'test\'s'