TEX Quotes
\(\TeX\) is a typesetting language developed by Donald Knuth. It takes source text together with a few typesetting instructions and produces, one hopes, a beautiful document. Beautiful documents use “
and ”
to delimit quotations, rather than the mundane "
which is what is provided by most keyboards. Keyboards typically do not have an oriented double-quote, but they do have a left-single-quote `
and a right-single-quote '. Check your keyboard now to locate the left-single-quote key ` (sometimes called the “backquote key”) and the right-single-quote key ' (sometimes called the “apostrophe” or just “quote”). Be careful not to confuse the left-single-quote ` with the “backslash” key \
. TEX lets the user type two left-single-quotes `` to create a left-double-quote “
and two right-single-quotes '' to create a right-double-quote ”
. Most typists, however, are accustomed to delimiting their quotations with the un-oriented double-quote "
.
If the source contained
`"To be or not to be," quoth the bard, "that is the question."`
then the typeset document produced by \(\TeX\) would not contain the desired form:
`“To be or not to be,” quoth the bard, “that is the question.”`
In order to produce the desired form, the source file must contain the sequence:
``To be or not to be,'' quoth the bard, ``that is the question.''
You are to write a program which converts text containing double-quote "
characters into text that is identical except that double-quotes have been replaced by the two-character sequences required by \(\TeX\) for delimiting quotations with oriented double-quotes. The double-quote "
characters should be replaced appropriately by either `` if the "
opens a quotation and by '' if the "
closes a quotation. Notice that the question of nested quotations does not arise: The first "
must be replaced by ``, the next by '', the next by ``, the next by '', the next by ``, the next by '', and so on.
Input
Input will consist of several lines of text containing an even number of double-quote "
characters. Input is ended with an end-of-file
character.
Output
The text must be output exactly as it was input except that:
- the first
"
in each pair is replaced by two ` characters: `` and - the second
"
in each pair is replaced by two ' characters: ''
Sample Input
"To be or not to be," quoth the Bard, "that
is the question".
The programming contestant replied: "I must disagree.
To `C' or not to `C', that is The Question!"
Sample Output
``To be or not to be,'' quoth the Bard, ``that
is the question''.
The programming contestant replied: ``I must disagree.
To `C' or not to `C', that is The Question!''
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