I have been trying to pass a string as an argument that has double quotes in it. For example, I want the input to be a string saying I am programming in "OCaml":
"I am programming in "OCaml""
That is what i want to be able to pass. I tried using some lexical conventions but had no luck. I don't want to change the quotes around OCaml.
I have tried
"\"I am programming in "OCaml"\"
And a couple of variations of this. Any tips on how to pass it?
You should escape the quotes inside the string, as with any other character that needs escaping, not the delimiters themselves:
"I am programming in \"OCaml\""
Alternatively, you can use a quoted string, which does not require (or allow) escaping and might be closer to what you were trying for:
{|I am programming in "OCaml"|}
For more details, see the section on string literals in the OCaml manual.
Here are a couple of literal strings containing double quotes:
"I am programming in \"OCaml\""
{|I am programming "OCaml"|}