Title: double single quotes causing errors
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# double single quotes causing errors

 *  [iisisrael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iisisrael/)
 * (@iisisrael)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/double-single-quotes-causing-errors/)
 * Double single quotes in php code become single single quotes and causes the eval
   of $content in function shortcode to break.
 *     ```
       [php]
       $string = "foops";
       $string = preg_replace( "/p.*/", '', $string);
       echo $string;
       [/php]
       ```
   
 * This throws an unexpected $end error. Changing the single quotes to double quotes
   fixes the error, and “foo” will be echoed.
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 * Last reply from: [iisisrael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iisisrael/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/double-single-quotes-causing-errors/)
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