it will be read as a string so you can skip the quotes.. to remove the ballast (single trailing newline from a string) use "chomp" function
julia> user_input = chomp(readline()); asd julia> user_input "asd" On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 5:16:25 PM UTC+2, Aleksandr Mikheev wrote: > > Hello, > > How could I input a data from the console? For instance, I would like to > make such that user is able to input the value of x. Is there any way to do > it like in Fortran or something? I can't find anything in documentation. > > P.S. Also, I believe there is a way to input a string using readline() > function. However, if I do something like: > > a = readline() > "asd" > > then I will get "\"asd\"\r\n". > > How to avoid these excess symbols? > > Thank you in advance! >
