write-line to include quote marks

[Johntosh]

How does one write double quotes to a file?

 

for example:

 

(write-line "alpha beta alpha beta "delta" alpha beta alpha beta")

 

N.B. delta should have double quote marks, I need it all on one line so this discounts write-char (I think)?

 

Thanks for any help on this

[borgunit]

You can concatenate the string using chr(34) wherever you need a quotation. VB recognizes that as the quotation mark.

 

LINK:

http://www.vbforfree.com/?p=312

[David Bethel]

Check out the 'Control Character in Quoted Strings' topic in the Vlisp help. It is actually a good one.

 

At least that's how it is listed in A2K help. -David

[jammie]

Following on the above replies, prefix a quote with a backslash to output it as a literal string

 

 

\"delta\" will output as "delta"

 

(write-line "alpha beta alpha beta \"delta \" alpha beta alpha beta")

 

Regards,

 

Jammie

[Lee Mac]

As in Jammie's example above - the \ (backslash) character prefix will allow the subsequent character to be read as a string instead of a syntax.

 

i.e.

 

\\ = \

\" = "

\n = new line

\t = tab

 

etc

 

And so, if you want to specify for example a filepath, one must include the double backslash to indicate a single:

 

C:\\Users\\Lee Mac\\Documents....

[BIGAL]

This may also be a way around another problem of spaces in directory names the path stops at a space using lisp, had to resort to VBA to get around it.

 

C:\\Users\\Lee Mac\\Documents....

or

C:\\Users\\Lee\ Mac\\Documents....