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Piotr Manczak
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Piotr Manczak
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Piotr Manczak
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 28,940 Points

While displaying a message Alina used: echo $message; . Why not: echo "$message"; ?

While displaying a message Alina used: echo $message;
. Why not: echo "$message";
? Should not we use "" for when using 'echo' command?

6 Answers

Mark Sebeck
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Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,341 Points
Mark Sebeck
Mark Sebeck
Treehouse Moderator 37,341 Points

Hi Piotr Manczak. The answer is it will work with the Quotes but its not necessary if you are only displaying the argument. If you wanted to display text with you argument then you need quotes. For example if you wanted to display - This is my message - $message . Then you would need to do:

echo "This is my message - $message";

but if you just want to show $message then either

echo $message;

or 

echo "$message";

will work Heres a link that might help