Quotes in strings without typing Chr(34) or #DQUOTE$

[Dude]

I just realized embedding inline quotes is possible by using \" and the escape string operator (~). Great stuff!

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a$=~"He said \"hello\" to his friends"
Debug a$

[Lunasole]

I just realized embedding inline quotes is possible by using \" and the escape string operator (~)

"in less than 2 years" ^^

Yes, that's one of nice things added to language recently, before I typically used ' instead of " and then ReplaceString()

[Dude]

"in less than 2 years"

Yes, it was added 9 months ago. But the manual doesn't explain much about it, except that escape characters are supported. I had no idea \" was an escape character.

[Kwai chang caine]

Always good to know
Thanks

[Keya]

another day another new PB trick to add to the toolbelt! and i had a look in the hex editor - the string is saved in escaped format (eg. \"Hi\" is saved in the exe as "Hi" not \"Hi\") , so no extra code is generated either (i guess that makes it a preprocessor thing?), nice and efficient in true Purebasic style