On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi guys. I am a bit lost here and maybe someone can give me a hand. I have a
> string that may include a single quote inside. Say I have the string 'Sell
> ''13' . This string actually has a SINGLE quote, so if you print it in a file
> for example, you get 'Sell '13'. Of course, when you inspect the string in
> Pharo, it has 2 single quotes: 'Sell '' 13'. ok?
No
It still has a single quote. This is just the reader that reads '' and produces
'
'1''3' at: 2
$'
'1''3' at: 3
$3
> Now...what I need is (quite weird I know) is to build a closure as a string
> and using the previous string as a literal of the closure.
>
> Imagine there is no single quote problem in my string, this would work
> perfect:
>
> (Compiler evaluate: '[ ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell '
> surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value.
>
> But, if instead of having 'Sell ', I have 'Sell '' 13', like this:
>
> (Compiler evaluate: '[ ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell '' 13'
> surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value.
>
> I get a SyntaxError of a unmatched string:
>
> [ Transcript show: 'Sell ' 13Unmatched string quote -> ']
>
> So...what can I do? I GUESS the solution is to scape that. If I try adding 2
> more single quotes, like this:
>
> (Compiler evaluate: '[ ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell '''' 13'
> surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value.
>
> it seems to work. If this is correct, is there an easy way (a method?) to
> scape my string automatically so that it works?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
