Of course, quotes can be escaped. -- Gregory
> On 01/22/2024 5:18 PM EST Bret Johnson via Freedos-devel
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>
> That solves the problem with commas, but it looks like you may still have
> issues if there are quotes in the file.
>
> I know one thing I've done in the past with some of my programs is allow the
> use of either a double-quote ("), single-quote ('), or grave-quote (`) as
> string demarkers, which allows strings to contain any two of the three
> quote-types and still be able to identify them properly. Of course, it will
> still fail if a string contains all three quote types, but that is a rare
> situation.
>
> EDLIN's solution (at least for MS-DOS 7.1) solves all potential problems with
> Ctrl-Z since Ctrl-Z (end-of-file) should never appear in the middle of the
> kinds of files (plain text) that EDLIN works with.
>
>
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