How to put odd or reserved characters into a script 1

[CustomerResearch]

I'm trying to put together a script that needs to transmit some reserved symbols. Specifically "" and ~

Whenever I try to put these directly into the script, I get a reserved word error.

IE

transmit "~something"

and (for whatever reason) I need to be able to transmit ""

transmit """" doesn't work... the compile doesn't like it, haha.


I paged through the help and couldn't find the solution to my problem. Any suggestions? (sorry, I'm sure this is really basic... but when you teach this stuff to yourself...)

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Brian, Customer Research Inc

http://www.customerresearch.com

 

[knob]

By default, the ~ character is used as a pause character, so you need to specify the RAW flag with the transmit command, such as:

transmit "~" RAW

As for the double quotes, you need to use backticks to escape them in the string, so that would look like:

transmit "`"`""

to transmit a pair of double quotes.


aspect@aspectscripting.com

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