I was attempting to find formats that used a particular quoting style — SQL style double-the-character-to-espace — and bizarrely JSON came up.
Gemini:
> JSON: In JSON, double quotes are used to delimit strings. If a double quote needs to be included within the string itself, it's escaped by doubling it (e.g., "This is a string with a "quote" in it.").
That is,
"This is a string with a "quote" in it."
Me: Does your JSON example parse as valid JSON?Gemini:
> Yes, the JSON example I provided ("This is a string with a "quote" in it.") is actually valid JSON.
> The reason it's valid is because the doubled quote within the string is interpreted as an escaped character, representing a single literal quote within the string itself. The JSON parser recognizes the double quotes at the beginning and end as delimiters for the entire string, not the escaped quote within.
It also called out,
> XML: Use a backslash (\) to escape characters, including quotes.
In a different context, and more towards "working with k8s" that the OP's AI is focused on,
Me: Regex to extract the replica number from a statefulset pod's name?
Gemini:
> Use kubectl: The kubectl get pods command with output formatting can directly show replica numbers. Here's an example:
kubectl get pods -o jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.name}{" - replica: "}{.metadata.labels.replicaset-序号}'
The Chinese here, as best as I can tell, reads "serial number" … which sort of contextually makes sense in the sense of an LLM, I guess. The command is utter nonsense, of course.