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Re: Escaping Quotes [message #44538 is a reply to message #44537]

Mon, 20 June 2005 16:55

Mark Hadfield
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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?
>
> '"This string doesn't work"'
>
> 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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		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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