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How to put quotes within a quoted string?
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| Posted by
| David Berthiaume
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| Tue 07 Feb 2006 06:50 AM (UTC) |
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| How do I put "" into a Note?
Note "Bob said to sharon "You know, we should go see a movie tonight...."" | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Haley
USA (3,881 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Tue 07 Feb 2006 08:18 AM (UTC) |
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| I think that VB script uses "" to mean ". So if you wanted to post the below, you'd have to write:
Note "Bob said to sharon "You know ... """. That way, of the three quotation marks, two will be interpreted to mean "insert a quotation mark into the string here". |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
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| Reply #2 on Tue 07 Feb 2006 09:25 PM (UTC) |
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| In some languages you can escape the quote with backslash. Lua and Jscript spring to mind.
eg.
Note "Bob said to sharon \"You know, we should go see a movie tonight....\""
This is really a language-specific issue. Read the documentation for the language you are using to see how to put quotes within quotes.
In Lua, you can use the other quote, like this:
Note 'Bob said to sharon "You know, we should go see a movie tonight...."'
This assumes, of course, you don't want single quotes inside the string too. If you did, you would then need to resort to the backslash trick. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| WillFa
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| Reply #3 on Wed 08 Feb 2006 05:26 AM (UTC) |
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| In any language you can also concatenate Chr(34) into the string:
VBScript: Note "WillFa thought " & chr(34) & "This is a tedious way to do it." & chr(34)
In Python you can use triple quotes to give formatted text:
world.Note("""WillFa thought "This way
I can even insert new lines without escaping them."""")
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