Escape characters in setvars

[David Allen]

So I have a frustrating situation where I'm trying to make a variable using setvars but said variable, to work correctly, requires both single and double quotes to be contained in the variable.  Is there some way I can escape some of the  contained quotation marks to get this working?

[David Allen]

Never mind, figured out a work around.  I did _dq='"' (that's one double quote in two single quotes) and used that where I needed double quotes in the variables.

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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:07 PM, David Allen <dvainw...@gmail.com> wrote:

So I have a frustrating situation where I'm trying to make a variable using setvars but said variable, to work correctly, requires both single and double quotes to be contained in the variable.  Is there some way I can escape some of the  contained quotation marks to get this working?

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[Tobias Beer]

Hi David,

Would you mind posting an example to play around with?

Best wishes,

Tobias.

[David Allen]

<$setvars
     _dq='"'
     _nameoutputprefix="<$macrocall $name="
     _nameoutputspecies={{Doff_Species!!species}}
     _nameoutputname={{$:/temp/genericname}}
     _nameoutputsuffix="/>"
     nameone="nameoutputname[1]"
     nametwo="nameoutputname[2]"
     namethree="nameoutputname[3]" 
     nameoutputline="nameoutputprefix dq \name_output\ dq \ species=\ nameoutputspecies \ first=\ dq nameone dq \ second=\ dq nametwo dq \ third=\ dq namethree dq nameoutputsuffix">
<<nameoutputline>>

</$setvars>

This builds a macrocall widget that can contain, if needed, both single and double quotes.  _dq is defined as a double-quote inside single quotes.  nameone, nametwo, and namethree are surrounded with the dq variable to allow single quotes inside the name if present.  Otherwise, both the macro widget and the << >> way of calling a macro would not work.

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