Stupid questions: \' & lazy parameter passing
Stupid questions: \' & lazy parameter passing
- Subject: Stupid questions: \' & lazy parameter passing
- From: Alex Robinson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 20:27:58 +0100
This may be a very stupid question...
I'm passing arguments through to a perl script (do shell script "perl -e
'script_goes_here'")
Obviously I need to ensure that single quotes get escaped in time for the
script to be executed.
But...
1. set escaped_quote to "\\'" returns \\' (eh?)
2. set escaped_quote to "\'" gives expected """ but found unknown token (as
expected)
So how do I manage to get \' in a string? I thought 1 was correct but why
isn't \\ ending up as \ ?
As I'm already asking one stupid question I might as well ask another...
If I have a function eg.
on somefunction given paramA:val1, paramB:val2, paramC:val3
--code
is it possible to call that function without explicitly passing each and
every parameter?
And in a quasi-related stupid question, is it possible to test whether a
variable/element of a record exists/has been defined? Or have I just gone
perl crazy in all my time away from applescript?
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