Sivakatirswami at wrote:
> Supercard has a "merge" function that causes quotes to be inserted when a `
> char ( the tilde key on a mac) is entered in a quoted literal. This is an
> extremely useful function for using xTalk to generate HTML. As I am planning
> to convert several SuperCard web page generator engines over to MC, I am
> "praying" there is something similar in Metatalk to do the same thing so
> that we can eliminate the process of writing:
>
> & quote & in strings like:
>
> & quote & "<http://www.findHeavenWithinYourSelf.com/" & "someFile.html" &
> quote"
>
> The quote char wasn't in the special char list of escapables. And
>
> put "\"whatever\"" into msg
>
> didn't work
I use a simple function for this:
put q("<http://www.findHeavenWithinYourSelf.com/") into tMyVar
function q s
return quote & s & quote
end q
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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