Escaping Quotes

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I know I can create a string like this

s="my name is "+chrb(34)+"Dave"+chrb(34)

but I have a lot of literal strings (an no, I don’t want to put them in an external file)

I thought there was a way to create escaped strings… something like

s="my name is \"Dave\""

Am I daft (wait… don’t answer that!)
Am I mistaken :slight_smile:

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s = “my name is ““Dave”””

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I was afraid of that… I hate that method :slight_smile:

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Put the strings that need escaping in a constant? Then you don’t need to worry about escaping quotes.

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Why not use a method that returns a string and use for instance grave () instead of chr(34). Then you use the method as msg quote("My name is Dave`")

Not sure it is much better than “” though.

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“” would be easier to deal with if the IDE color coded them. Many text editors will color code ANSI escape characters in a string. Imagine if s = "my name is ""Dave""" the “” in the string were to appear in red. It’d be a whole lot easier.

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[quote=87880:@Dave S]I know I can create a string like this

s="my name is "+chrb(34)+"Dave"+chrb(34)

[/quote]
Yeah dont do this - this is probably the least desirable way to do this
You’ll end up with nil encoded strings :slight_smile:

  1. Just double up contained quotes
  2. use the UTF8 code point instead
    s="my name is " + &u22 + “Dave” + &u22
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You could always write a little function, too, so you could then say:

s = "my name is " + inQuotes(“Dave”)

9

Isn’t it easier just to double up the quotes?

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Much more efficient also. A method call is expensive as is string concatenation. I don’t like “” escapes, but I learned to deal with it, it is what it is.

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I dislike them too, but the IDE is your friend - just check out the color of the text.

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Yes, and that’s what I do, but if someone doesn’t like the look of so many quotes in a row a function would be another option.

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after dinking around… I decided that doubled double quotes is the best way after all… and like Wayne said…

The IDE is my friend…(and friend who however has a ton of other annoying habits, but that is not the topic of THIS thread :slight_smile: )