# Loading strings with double quotes (")

**URL:** <https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/loading-strings-with-double-quotes/12443>\
**Category:** Dgraph\
**Tags:** kind:question\
**Created:** [January 25, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/loading-strings-with-double-quotes/12443 "2021-01-25T15:42:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Matthias\_Baetens](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/matthias_baetens/32/6041_2.png) [@Matthias\_Baetens](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/Matthias_Baetens)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/loading-strings-with-double-quotes/12443/1 "2021-01-25T15:42:27Z")

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## I Want to Do

Load data into Dgraph, with strings that contain double quotes (").

## What I Did

I have the data in RDF format as follows;

`<_:id/0053C9-E> <name> "Toys \"R\" Us" .`

as this was the way to escape double quotes I found. However, when retrieving this data from Dgraph, the escape characters are returned as well (`Toys \"R\" US` instead of the desired `Toys "R" US`)

## Dgraph Metadata

```auto
Dgraph version : v20.11.0
Dgraph codename : tchalla
Dgraph SHA-256 : 8acb886b24556691d7d74929817a4ac7d9db76bb8b77de00f44650931a16b6ac
Commit SHA-1 : c4245ad55
Commit timestamp : 2020-12-16 15:55:40 +0530
Branch : HEAD
Go version : go1.15.5
jemalloc enabled : true

```

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**Author:** ![MichelDiz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/micheldiz/32/11873_2.png) [@MichelDiz](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/MichelDiz)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2021, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/loading-strings-with-double-quotes/12443/2 "2021-01-25T15:50:37Z")

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> [@Matthias\_Baetens](#):
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> the escape characters are returned as well (`Toys \"R\" US` instead of the desired `Toys "R" US`)

That’s right. Dgraph doesn’t escape and unescape. So you need to escape and unescape on your end.

Some time ago I thought about having a directive to escape and unescape on the fly. Not sure if I have opened a feature request for this. If not, feel free to ask it.

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**Author:** ![Matthias\_Baetens](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex007/user_avatar/discuss.dgraph.io/matthias_baetens/32/6041_2.png) [@Matthias\_Baetens](https://discuss.dgraph.io/u/Matthias_Baetens)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.dgraph.io/t/loading-strings-with-double-quotes/12443/3 "2021-02-02T21:16:00Z")

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I think that would come in handy, yes!