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Re: string question


  • Subject: Re: string question
  • From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:00:26 -0500

On 8/14/02 10:13 AM, "Alex Robinson" <email@hidden> wrote:

> You need to escape the quote marks. You do this with a backslash before the
> quote, like so \"
>
> So your string would need to be:
>
> "My string might be \"this\" and there would \"be\" extra quotes
> \"throughout\" the string"

Depending on what you're going to do with your string, it's simpler just to
type curly quotes (shift-option-H and shift-option-J). Works fine in dialog
boxes.

Michael

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