# Phrases from string work, but from file failes

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**Created:** [December 29, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/phrases-from-string-work-but-from-file-failes/1673 "2019-12-29T18:55:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:59pm UTC](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/phrases-from-string-work-but-from-file-failes/1673/5 "2019-12-29T22:59:29Z")

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```prolog
assertion(Result = Expected)

```

See: [Little testing tip](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/little-testing-tip/1371)

Also see:  
[The string type and its double quoted syntax](https://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=strings)  
[What type is a single quoted string?](https://swi-prolog.discourse.group/t/what-type-is-a-single-quoted-string/1102)

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```prolog
:- expects_dialect(sicstus).

```

I didn’t know that could be done. Learn something new everyday.

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