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st: RE: RE: literal single quotes


From   "Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)" <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: literal single quotes
Date   Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:48:10 -0600

Thanks, Roger, Nick

Both suggestions work, but something like

. local bull =  "count if char(96)tempchar(39) >0"
. `bull'

unknown function ()
r(133);


does not work.




. local lq = char(96)

. local rq = char(39)

. local bull =  "count if `lq'temp`rq'  >0"

. `bull'
  334

(works)


. local bull   "count if  \`temp\'  >0"

. `bull'
  334

(works)


Nick - I see a legitimate need for this when you have a long expression involving temporary variables or names that may make the code look ugly if written out next to some other long statement.

Al




-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 11:37 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: literal single quotes

This sounds like the urge for setting up a delayed evaluation, on which
my advice is 

1. Use \` to insert a literal left quote if the urge is overwhelming. 

2. Better, resist the urge. Rewrite your code so that you don't need to
do it.  

This came up a few months ago, but I can't find my post. Martin Weiss
will probably remember it. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)

Can someone please tell me how to define a local macro  that contains
literal single quotes? For example Suppose I want to do something like

local bull "count if `temp' > 0"

where `temp' is to be interpreted literally, not evaluated.

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