Gerben Wierda schrieb am 29.03.2020 um 14:30:


On 29 Mar 2020, at 12:58, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

Gerben Wierda schrieb am 29.03.2020 um 12:52:
I am using MetaFun (Lua code) to create METAPOST commands from an XML file. One of 
the issues I am running into that in METAPOST I have to handle strings with " 
characters in them and METAPOST doesn’t like those. The argument using the string
Foo "Bar” Foo

     ^^^

Use correct left quotation marks or \quotation{…}.

I’m not hard coding the string, I’m reading it from an XML. So, whatever I do, 
I need to do it by manipulating the string.

E.g. if the string I read contains

Foo "Bar” Foo

your suggestion means  I have to programmatically change that to

Foo \quotation{Bar} Foo

which is too complicated, given that I don’t have regular expression replace at 
my disposal.

I might be able to change al “ instances into something else by walking through 
the string and building a new one.

Your example uses " before Bar and not “ which is the problem.

Wolfgang
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