Thanks, Alex. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org
> On Jan 19, 2019, at 10:47 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > There shouldn't be any examples of " in the actual script. > > It's an anomaly from HTML - in order to display a quote sign in an HTML > document, you need to use the form of " so this has been > copied/pasted (or something like that) between a a simple document/text file > and an HTML file, and finished up with unneeded replacement for the quotes. > > so take the text below, and replace all examples of " with just the > simply quote sign itself, and it should be all ok. > > Alex. > >> On 19/01/2019 17:55, prothero--- via use-livecode wrote: >> In this discussion of the use of the merge function at: >> http://newsletters.livecode.com/august/issue55/newsletter2.php >> The samples use quot; extensively. >> >> For example: >> on mouseUp >> put merge("[[quote]]Foobar[[quote]] [[the short name of \ this >> stack]]") & return & \ merge("[[the layer of this card]] / >> [[the short ID \ of me]]") into tVariable >> end mouseUp >> This script, as written, throws an error in the SE in LC 9.0.2. Mac OS10.14 >> >> What is the meaning of the " in the expression? That seems to be the >> source an error. >> >> The merge function looks very useful, but I’m obviously missing something. >> >> Best, >> Bill >> >> William Prothero >> http://es.earthednet.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
