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Updated 3 months ago

Quotes

Hi gang... major long shot.

Does anyone know why the airtable reader seemingly loads some text with " and some with ' ?

I am loading text data and then querying it.

And - weirdly - some of my airtable records are loaded with " and some with ' despite being entered without either in the table itself.

E.g. 'Quotes': 'Not eating a lot in the few hours before sleep helps. Not drinking alcohol helps a lot, though I’m not willing to do that all the time.\n'

vs

'Quotes': "Copying is a good way to learn, but copy the right things. When I was in college I imitated the pompous diction of famous professors. But this wasn't what made them eminent β€” it was more a flaw their eminence had allowed them to sink into. Imitating it was like pretending to have gout in order to seem rich.\n"

Even though in the airtable records, neither have any quotation mark.

This is frustratingly important because I am using regex to manipulate the doc text for the nodes.

not sure if you know as you did the airtable reader?
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I think this is a symptom of python strings

When the quote uses " its because there is a ' character already in the quote
At least, that's my guess based on the examples lol
I'll check when I'm free.
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