On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:34 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys. I am a bit lost here and maybe someone can give me a hand. I have a > string that may include a single quote inside. Say I have the string 'Sell > ''13' . This string actually has a SINGLE quote, so if you print it in a file > for example, you get 'Sell '13'. Of course, when you inspect the string in > Pharo, it has 2 single quotes: 'Sell '' 13'. ok? No It still has a single quote. This is just the reader that reads '' and produces ' '1''3' at: 2 $' '1''3' at: 3 $3 > Now...what I need is (quite weird I know) is to build a closure as a string > and using the previous string as a literal of the closure. > > Imagine there is no single quote problem in my string, this would work > perfect: > > (Compiler evaluate: '[ ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell ' > surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value. > > But, if instead of having 'Sell ', I have 'Sell '' 13', like this: > > (Compiler evaluate: '[ ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell '' 13' > surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value. > > I get a SyntaxError of a unmatched string: > > [ Transcript show: 'Sell ' 13Unmatched string quote -> '] > > So...what can I do? I GUESS the solution is to scape that. If I try adding 2 > more single quotes, like this: > > (Compiler evaluate: '[ ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell '''' 13' > surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value. > > it seems to work. If this is correct, is there an easy way (a method?) to > scape my string automatically so that it works? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com