Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> Sivakatirswami at wrote:
>
> > Supercard has a "merge" function that causes quotes to be inserted when a `
> > char ( the tilde key on a mac) is entered in a quoted literal. This is an
> > extremely useful function for using xTalk to generate HTML. As I am planning
> > to convert several SuperCard web page generator engines over to MC, I am
> > "praying" there is something similar in Metatalk to do the same thing so
> > that we can eliminate the process of writing:
> >
> > & quote & in strings like:
> >
> > & quote & "<http://www.findHeavenWithinYourSelf.com/" & "someFile.html" &
> > quote"
> >
> > The quote char wasn't in the special char list of escapables. And
> >
> > put "\"whatever\"" into msg
> >
> > didn't work
>
> I use a simple function for this:
>
> put q("<http://www.findHeavenWithinYourSelf.com/") into tMyVar
>
> function q s
> return quote & s & quote
> end q
>
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Media Corporation
> Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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Otherwise :
put "...#<http://www.findHeavenWithinYourSelf.com/#..." into somevar
replace "#" with "& quote &" in somevar
Regards, Pierre Sahores
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