Help with printing quotation marks within a string

[shakes]

I am getting reacquainted with Basic programming and can't remember nor find the answer to how to print or print to a file quotation marks within a string. I am trying to print some lines of HTML and in some places quotation marks are required to be read by the browser.

PRINT &quot;<FONT COLOR=&quot;#777777&quot;> This color is? </FONT>

for instance won't work. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[dpaulson]

PRINT &quot;<FONT COLOR=&quot; + chr$(34) + &quot;#777777&quot;> This color is? </FONT>



David Paulson

 

[Cykadelyxx]

also if your HTML code is in a buffer than you should have no problem copying directly to a file using the PUT statement.

make a buffer, buffer$=string$(10000,0)

this would put the quotations in automatically, but if you're getting your HTML from user input then you would probably need to trim the string RTRIM$(buffer$) so not to waste space or skew the formatting. either way I think this method is simpler because you don't have to scan the string for quotation marks.

 

[Cykadelyxx]

oh sorry for being so uninflective. the biggest problem you are having is because when you input a quotation it comes out as a space in your string?

there is probably a better way to do this but the way I use
is to use INKEY$ instead of INPUT.

like this

'get user input

DO

DO
loop until INKEY$<>&quot;&quot;

MID$(Buffer$,X,1) = INKEY$

LOOP UNTIL <however you want to stop or go down to the next line>


You don't get a blinking cursor this way but you could make one easy enough.

 

[Cykadelyxx]

btw INKEY$ is a function so you should change that to F$=INEKY$