Re: """
Re: """
- Subject: Re: """
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:59:32 -0600
On 9/16/05 8:26 AM, "Robert Poland" <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm trying to use a quote in a string as in this example;
display dialog "Ok to save? " & """ & newName & """ & buttons
{"OK", "No"} default button 1 cancel button 2
I assume I need to escape the enclosed quote, but neither the "\" or
"<escape key>" seem to be the answer.
I have plowed around all over the Help from "Smile" with not results.
Matt's book doesn't seem to help me either.
Any suggestions?
Just try a little harder. Assuming newName is previously defined, e.g.
set newName to "foo"
display dialog "Ok to save? \"" & newName & "\"" buttons {"OK", "No"}
default button 1 cancel button 2 -- one line
In particular, don't put a '&' before 'buttons'.
Why would you expect there to be anything in Matt's book, or Smile's Help,
other than telling you that you need an \ to escape literal " quote
characters within strings? The rest is up to you to think logically and
check for errors.
--
Paul Berkowitz
Thnaks Paul,
I caught the extra &. The escape key wouldn't work for some reason,
now it does.
All I did was cut and paste from Martin Orpen's emailed answer.
Weird.
--
Bob Poland - Fort Collins, CO
http://www.ibrb.org/
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