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st: RE: RE: literal single quotes
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"Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)" <[email protected]>
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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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