Re: How to write a double-quote character, ", to a file

["Peter B. Nelson" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alas, I appreciate the sentiment, but believe me - I've tried the obvious.

I'm a professional programmer with 100,000's of lines of code under my
belt.  None of the obvious escape sequences worked.  EasyLanguage does have
a string constant called NewLine which equals "\r\n", but as far as I've
been able to tell, there is no comparable string constant for ascii decimal
34, the double-quote.

At this point I'm thinking I'll have to write a .DLL just to create a string
with a " in it.  I could call it once at the beginning of my program and set
a variable to it.  If anyone has ever solved this problem, I'm dieing to
hear how.  By the sounds of it, I'm not the only one.

-Peter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Howard" <yantis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <code-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Omega List'" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 8:50 PM
Subject: RE: CL_EL Coding: How to write a double-quote character, ", to a
file


Common programming problem. The solution in most programming languages
is a magic prefix-character: '\'. So, to print the following line:

This is a "double quote" : "

I would use the following string:

"This is a \"double quote\" : \""

This magic character is used to insert many different characters that
seem impossible to insert (") or have no visual representation
(<Enter>). You get used to it eventually and no one's come up with a
good substitute system. If the above string works, then the following
should also work:

<Enter>(call a 'newline')  : \n (sometimes \r\n)
<Tab>                      : \t
\                          : \\

Ted


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter B. Nelson [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:35 PM
To: code-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Omega List
Subject: CL_EL Coding: How to write a double-quote character, ", to a
file

Fellow EL Coders,
    Does anyone know how to get a double-quote character, ",  into a
string
using EasyLanguage?  I need to write one into a file for Excel .CSV
parsing.
I looked for, and didn't find, an escape character, a char(34) funtion,
and
so on.
    Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Peter Nelson

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