What are all the valid ways to quote literal strings when assigning them to variables in unibasic on Unidata?
What are all the valid ways to quote literal strings when assigning them to variables in unibasic on Unidata?
I use double quotes, single quotes, and backslashes.
"Hello"
'Hello'
\\Hello\\
of course the functions DQUOTE and SQUOTE can be useful too.
I use double quotes, single quotes, and backslashes.
"Hello"
'Hello'
\\Hello\\
of course the functions DQUOTE and SQUOTE can be useful too.
Thank you, David.
I knew there was at least one more way to do it.
What are all the valid ways to quote literal strings when assigning them to variables in unibasic on Unidata?
Shawn,
For consistency I never use a ' but rather ".
COLOR = "BLUE" ;* preferred method of the "
COLOR = 'RED' ;* never used.
COLOR = \\YELLOW\\ ;* never use to assign a variable but preferred method to execute a TCL statement or an Operating system command.
STMT = \\SELECT FILENAME WITH COLOR = "BLUE" \\ ;* preferred method of the \\ It's much easier to read and easy on the eyes.
Shawn,
For consistency I never use a ' but rather ".
COLOR = "BLUE" ;* preferred method of the "
COLOR = 'RED' ;* never used.
COLOR = \\YELLOW\\ ;* never use to assign a variable but preferred method to execute a TCL statement or an Operating system command.
STMT = \\SELECT FILENAME WITH COLOR = "BLUE" \\ ;* preferred method of the \\ It's much easier to read and easy on the eyes.
Great suggestions...thank you, Peter.
In the case that gave rise to my initial question, i have to use something other than a double quote since the string being defined will contain those.
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