On 24 July 2013 18:38, Chris Cunningham <cunningham...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doesn't just #printString do this? It escapes single strings into doubles - > should do what you want if it is definitely a string. > -Chris > yes, printString does exactly what you want.
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:34 AM, 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? >> >> 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 > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
