Escape a double quote in a string

[KingSlick]

Hello,

I am trying to escape a double quote character (") in a string. For example,

strQuote = "Scott said "Hello World. It's Mine" to everyone"

I also need to have a single quote within the same string.

Thanks in advance
-Scott

 

[Dan Freeman]

Use square brackets:

strQuote = [Scott said "Hello World. It's Mine" to everyone]

 

[JRB-Bldr]

The single quote and double quote are handled within a string as distinctly different types.

Single quotes can appear within a double quote string and vice versa.

cTestString1 = "Scott said 'Hello World. It's Mine' to everyone"
?cTestString1

* --- Or ---
cTestString2 = 'Scott said "Hello World. It's Mine" to everyone'
?cTestString2

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[brigmar]

jrbbldr,
Trying to assign cTestString2 would give a syntax error, because of the apostrophe in [It's]

 

[JRB-Bldr]

You are correct. I missed that one.

It souhld have been...

cTestString2 = 'Scott said "Hello World. It' + "'" + 's Mine" to everyone'
?cTestString2

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[Mike Lewis]

Here's another possibility:

TEXT TO lcStr NOSHOW 
Scott's Dad said "Hello (it's mine]" [That's right]
ENDTEXT

Mike

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[KingSlick]

Thanks for all the help. I think the best way is to use the chr(34).

-SM

 

[dbMark]

It's always good to keep in mind that while VFP allows for 3 ways to nest or encapsulate quotes and text (double quotes, single quotes and square brackets), other languages were not designed to be so flexible. Some will work in certain formats and commands only with single quotes, sometimes only with double quotes. So as a general comment, keep that in mind if you're sending data back and forth between languages.

 

[Mike Lewis]

dbMark,

Hmm. Not sure I agree with that. Delimiters are used to delimit literal values in source code. Can't see how that affects the sending of data to "other languages" (other applications?).

Am I missing something?

Mike

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[dbMark]

While I haven't been doing much web code recently, in the past I would build pages using VFP and I had to be very careful whether I used single quotes or double quotes or how I nested them in certain code. It was either HTML, VBScript or JavaScript, can't remember offhand which it was now, that in one specific usage required one delimiter type and not the other.

My purpose was just to note that this was another case where what works in VFP doesn't always work elsewhere.

I admit I could have been going off on a tangent a bit. It reminds me of the PBS series "Connections" in the 1980s. The narrator led the viewer using a cascade of seemingly unconnected events and techniques from the Roman Empire to modern day showing that until one or several inventions or discoveries were made, the next ones weren't possible.

 

[Mike Lewis]

My purpose was just to note that this was another case where what works in VFP doesn't always work elsewhere.

Can't argue with that. I did a couple of weeks work in PHP earlier this year. When I went back to VFP, it took an effort to stop putting semi-colons at the end of every line.

But I'm not sure if that's a reason to prefer one type of delimiter over another.

Mike

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