| Re: Escaping Quotes [message #44515] |
Tue, 21 June 2005 14:39 |
Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995
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Michael Wallace wrote:
> ...I *knew* there was a simple way to
> escape a quote... just escape it with another quote...
Yeah, I *knew* that too. At least I used to know it, a long time ago in
a galaxy far, far away.
It's copied from Fortran, isn't it?
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Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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| Re: Escaping Quotes [message #44529 is a reply to message #44515] |
Tue, 21 June 2005 10:54  |
Michael Wallace
Messages: 409
Registered: December 2003
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> What about escape with quote ??
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> print, '"This string doesn''t work ??"'
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That was what I was forgetting. I *knew* there was a simple way to
escape a quote... just escape it with another quote. Thanks.
-Mike
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| Re: Escaping Quotes [message #44534 is a reply to message #44529] |
Mon, 20 June 2005 23:53 |
Antonio Santiago
Messages: 201
Registered: February 2004
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Michael Wallace wrote:
> I am having a brain cramp right now and can't even remember the simplest
> of IDL. How do you escape quotes given that you want both single and
> double quotes to appear in the string?
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> '"This string doesn't work"'
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> Naturally, I tried using the standard slash-style escaping you find in
> other languages, but to no avail.
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> -Mike
What about escape with quote ??
print, '"This string doesn''t work ??"'
bye ;)
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| Re: Escaping Quotes [message #44537 is a reply to message #44534] |
Mon, 20 June 2005 17:35 |
Peter Mason
Messages: 145
Registered: June 1996
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Michael Wallace wrote:
> I am having a brain cramp right now and can't even remember the
> simplest of IDL. How do you escape quotes given that you want both
> single and double quotes to appear in the string?
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> '"This string doesn't work"'
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> Naturally, I tried using the standard slash-style escaping you find in
> other languages, but to no avail.
Although I feel safer with Mark's approach myself, there's also:
s = "What's ""leveraged""?"
and
s = 'What''s "leveraged"?'
(I hope you're viewing this with a fixed-space font.)
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| Re: Escaping Quotes [message #44538 is a reply to message #44537] |
Mon, 20 June 2005 16:55 |
Mark Hadfield
Messages: 783
Registered: May 1995
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Michael Wallace wrote:
> I am having a brain cramp right now and can't even remember the simplest
> of IDL. How do you escape quotes given that you want both single and
> double quotes to appear in the string?
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> '"This string doesn't work"'
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> Naturally, I tried using the standard slash-style escaping you find in
> other languages, but to no avail.
Doubtless there are many different ways to do it, using formatted
strings or byte<->string conversion or what-have-you, but the way that
seems simplest to my limited brain is to break the problem down into
substrings then recombine them:
IDL> print, '"This string mightn'+"'"+'t work, but it does!"'
"This string mightn't work, but it does!"
Ugly, though.
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Mark Hadfield "Kei puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tahi tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
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