quotes

[Rjevsky]

Maybe this has already been discussed, but I would like to be able to use several kinds of quotes in the code, like AutoIt or PHP.

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Debug(' "Hello Word" ')
Debug(' " '+'Hello Word'+' " ')

Personally, I do not really have this possibility when working with text files and JSON.
I know that you can use Chr (34), but the code becomes very poorly readable.

[kenmo]

Hi, I think this has been requested before somewhere.

One problem is that single-quotes already have a syntax meaning in PB, they are used for character values:

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Str.s  = "A"
Char.c = 'A'
Debug Char

Some nicer ways you can use double-quotes now:

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; Escaped strings (PB 5.40+)
Debug ~"\"Hello World\""

; Constant instead of Chr(34)
Debug #DQUOTE$ + "Hello World" + #DQUOTE$

; Shorter constant :)
#DQ$ = #DQUOTE$
Debug #DQ$ + "Hello World" + #DQ$

; Macros
Macro DQ(Text)
  #DQUOTE$ + Text + #DQUOTE$
EndMacro
Macro SDQ(Text)
  ReplaceString(Text, "'", #DQUOTE$)
EndMacro

Debug DQ("Hello World")
Debug SDQ("'Hello World'")

[User_Russian]

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Debug(~"\"Hello Word\"")

[Bisonte]

uuhh. Since 5.40 ? oh I think I have to read the changelog more carefully....

And I make my "html" strings with the "old" techniques