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Re: String constants?

To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: String constants?
From: Jonathan Johnson <jonj at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:36:38 -0600
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On Nov 28, 2004, at 3:29 PM, Alfred Van Hoek wrote:

on 11/28/04 4:23 PM, Jonathan Johnson at jonj at realsoftware dot com wrote:

Have you tried "Default = \"deft\""?

No, would never have thought about this, but this suggestion is very
helpful, and appears to satisfy RB,

Well, basically, the C compiler was interpreting the previous code by simply doing string concatenations. Two string literals next to each other are simply concatenated. IE, when the C compiler encounters {"a" "b"}, it combines them to "ab". Using the escape character ("\") inside the string allows you to tell the compiler to treat it as a true quote rather than a string-literal-ending quote.

HTH,
Jon


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