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Exchanging Quotes

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Start file
mystring = 'This quoted string contains \' and is also'
           
'surrounded with \' characters.  It is also'
           
'a multiline string too'
End file
mystring = "This quoted string contains ' and used to be"
           
"surrounded with ' characters.  It is also"
           
"a multiline string too"

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1,3c1,3
< mystring = 'This quoted string contains \' and is also'
<            'surrounded with \' characters.  It is also'
<            'a multiline string too'
---
> mystring = "This quoted string contains ' and used to be"
>            "surrounded with ' characters.  It is also"
>            "a multiline string too"

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Solutions by @poeminlash:
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#12 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:18PM

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#>44 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:14PM

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#>65 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:14PM

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#>74 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:14PM

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#>87 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:13PM

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#>102 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:12PM

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#>120 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:12PM

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#>158 - Qing Liu / @poeminlash

08/13/2022 at 08:10PM