enclosing variable in quotes

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

If I'm wanting to pass my variable with double quotes included, why does
processing not like this?

aa=somedata

ab="\"aa\""

This simply returns literally  "aa"

How do I get it to show   "somedata"?

This doesn't work either    ab="\"{aa\""   or   ab="\"<aa\""

thanks

Scott
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