The problem is if I console log this string: "Lorem " the console.log will output: Lorem and I can't tell if at the end of the string there is white space or not.
How can I force console to show output in quotation marks?
4 Answers
Try
let s = "Lorem";
console.log( JSON.stringify(s) );
answered Aug 20, 2019 at 17:38
Kamil Kiełczewski
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TwistedOwl
I was afraid that this is the only best solution (which is the most readable) I think. Thanks.
let lorem = "Lorem ";
console.log('"'+lorem+'"');
// Prints: "Lorem "
More generally, the pattern console.log('"'+expression+'"') will print out the expression with quotes on either side so you can see where the actual beginning and end of the expression is.
If you want this to happen every time, consider creating a function like so:
function myConsole(...expr){
console.log('"'+expr.join(' ')+'"');
}
And using that instead of console.log
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Kamil Kiełczewski
If you remove
... and .join(' ') it will works too :)
David Sampson
It will for any unary call, but
console.log is technically variadic, so someone expecting myConsole to work like console.log might reasonably attempt myConsole(anExpression, anotherExpression, aThirdExpression), which wouldn't work without the .... The .join(' ') is unnecessary except that it separates the arguments with a space.Simply escape the slashes:
console.log("\"Lorem \"")or wrap the double quotes in single quotes (or vice-verse)
console.log('"Lorem "');
Comments
To show single quote ( " ) with a string use this syntax
console.log("\"\Your string");
gives output as "Your string
console.log('"Lorem "');console.logto always do that. But it's probably too much of a hack to do for the whole application.