Quotes in variables

[Ondra]

Good day. I would like to know how do I include quotes in a text sting when I'm trying to save the text to a variable. example:-
MyStringVar[70]= "I said "That the string component won't accept a statement with quotes in it.""

Ondra

[Benj]

Hello Ondra

To do this you will have to assign the ascii numeric value for the " character.

MyStringVar[70] = 34

[Ondra]

Using the example above, are you saying that I can place 34 in place of the quotes an it will print out as ".
So then this : - MyStringVar[70] = "I said 34 That the string component won't accept a statement with quotes in it.34"
would print out as this :- I said "That the string component won't accept a statement with quotes in it."

Ondra

[Benj]

Hello Ondra

No you cannot include the number 34 inside the speechmarks or it will be interpreted as the ascii chars for 3 and 4. You must do the following to assign the value to a string.

example_String = " Hello "
example_String[0] = 34
example_String[6] = 34

would provide the string "Hello"

If you are wishing to send the quote characters over the RS232 then its probably easier to use 3 send macros.

Eg
RS232_Send 34
RS232_Send "Hello" or example_String
RS232_Send 34

[Steve]

You might be able to use "escape sequences" using the backslash character, like this:

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example_String = "\"Hello\""

[Ondra]

Thanks for going the extra on this Steve. I thought I saw something like that somewhere.

Ondra