String quotes

[Ashley Chapman]

I've been doing a lot of html/JavaScript code generation recently (with Scarlet/QM), and it's been a right royal pain defining a string with both quote types, when you need to enclose the whole thing in quotes.  For some reason I looked in the QM manual, and discovered that you can use backslash ( eg \string\ ) as an alternative quoting character.  Suddenly, all of the quote shenanigans becomes much simpler.

Is there any possibility of doing the same in Exodus?

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Ashley Chapman

[Steve Bush]

Exodus hasnt got a compiler or precompiler of its own. It uses any standard C++ compiler so I cant implement QM's trick.

Cant you use the almost universal backslash houdini trick?

This is valid javascript .. and valid exodus too.

var aa="I said \"Hello\" first!";

Exodus can do the following too thanks to C++ compiler's penchant for joining adjacent strings.

var aa="This is a line of text\n"
          "and so it this\n"
          "and so it this\n"
          "and so it this\n"
          "and so it this\n";

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[Ashley Chapman]

On 9 November 2010 14:40, Steve Bush <neosys.com@gmail.com> wrote:

Exodus hasnt got a compiler or precompiler of its own. It uses any standard C++ compiler so I cant implement QM's trick.

Cant you use the almost universal backslash houdini trick?

This is valid javascript .. and valid exodus too.

var aa="I said \"Hello\" first!";

Exodus can do the following too thanks to C++ compiler's penchant for joining adjacent strings.

var aa="This is a line of text\n"
          "and so it this\n"
          "and so it this\n"
          "and so it this\n"
          "and so it this\n";

I'm thinking of outputting this string:-
<input type="button onclick="alert('Are you\nSure?')">

which comes

var aa="<input type=\"button onclick=\"alert('Are you\\nSure?')\">

So I have to be particularly careful with the escaping of the \n so it gets enclosed in the string and passed to the browser.

I guess it's allright.  I was just wondering if Exodus had overloaded some operators to make things easier/simpler/cleaner?




 Ashley

[Steve Bush]

Sorry no can do. C/C++/Javascript has problems quoting itself and you end up the notorious double, quadruple and even octo slash with only three levels of quoting. btw, if QM allows quoting with a backslash doesnt that cause problems quoting \n etc?