What is the difference between ' and " in Prolog?

Question

I am new to Prolog and noticed that \' and \" give different behavior, but am curious as to why. Specifically, when loading a file, ?- [\'test1.pl\']. works, w

Answer 1

Strings in Prolog are written in single quotes. Terms written in double quotes are immediately converted to a list of character codes.

?- write('sdf').
sdf
true.

?- write("sdf").
[115, 100, 102]
true.