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Re: Escaping Quotes [message #44537 is a reply to message #44534]

Mon, 20 June 2005 17:35

Peter Mason
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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?
>
> '"This string doesn't work"'
>
> 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"?'

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		Re: Escaping Quotes By: Mark Hadfield on Tue, 21 June 2005 14:39
		Re: Escaping Quotes By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 21 June 2005 10:54
		Re: Escaping Quotes By: Antonio Santiago on Mon, 20 June 2005 23:53
		Re: Escaping Quotes By: Peter Mason on Mon, 20 June 2005 17:35
		Re: Escaping Quotes By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 20 June 2005 16:55

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