Quote marks in PRINT statements

[Fred Katzel]

Hi
Is there some way to put quote marks in PRINT statements. When I
programmed in PLI or FORTRAN by putting "" in a PRINT statement
would put quote marks in the OUTPUT statement. ei:
PRINT "I said, ""I Love you"", would produce: I said, "I Love you".


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[Egbert Zijlema]

Originally posted by Fred Katzel:
Hi
Is there some way to put quote marks in PRINT statements.

What about CHR$(34)?

PRINT CHR$(34);"I love you";CHR$(34)

Another option maybe to use WRITE instead of PRINT.



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[Tom Hanlin]

Fred, your code works fine in the Windows compilers, although there
should be three quotes on the end. PB/DOS, hmmm...

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[Leon Stennett]

Originally posted by Fred Katzel:
Hi
Is there some way to put quote marks in PRINT statements. When I
programmed in PLI or FORTRAN by putting "" in a PRINT statement
would put quote marks in the OUTPUT statement. ei:
PRINT "I said, ""I Love you"", would produce: I said, "I Love you".

Hi Fred,

After using CHR$(34) for a long time (PBDOS) for imbedding quotes
I opted to Dimension the variable "Q" as a string and list it as
a global variable in a PUBLIC starement (so units/libs can use).

Then PRINT Q;"Hello there";Q

An even greater benefit is that if I want to shell to DOS and use
long file names, I can concatenate the Q variable with my path:

DIM Q AS STRING 'give it a name
PUBLIC Q 'for units/libs
Q = CHR$(34) 'set the string

Qpath$ = Q + "C:\My directory\afile.txt" + Q 'embed quotes
SHELL "if exist " + Qpath$ + " echo it's there" 'use in command

This allows you to create LFN files and directories from PBDOS.
Only real advantage over CHR$(34) is brevity & readability.

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[This message has been edited by Leon Stennett (edited August 04, 2002).]

[Amos Vryhof]

FUNCTION quote$(inString$)
  FUNCTION=chr$(34)+inString$+chr$(34)
END FUNCTION

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[David J Venable]

Here's a good area for a request for future versions.
How about C style escape sequences, such as:

print "The lady said, \"How's it going?\"\n"


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[Lance Edmonds]

It would be much more likely we'd use the same method supported by PB/CC and PB/Win:

A$ = "Clearing his throat, he muttered a sharp ""Hello!"", then scuttled back into his cave."

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