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DarkBASIC Discussion / Outputting strings containing " marks to a file

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Sock of Eternity
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Posted: 5th Jun 2006 23:45
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Hi. Hopefully a quick question... how can I have the " character as part of a string without DB seeing it as the end of the string?

I'm trying to output the following to a file:
strcpy(GameData[1].back, "bob");

The quote marks are giving me trouble though as in DB the line I use looks like:
WRITE STRING 1,"strcpy(GameData[1].name, "bob");"

It's worse though... bob is actually a variable called name$, so ultimately I think I need something like:
WRITE STRING 1,"strcpy(GameData[1].name, ""+name$+"");"

Needless to say... it doesn't seem to work. Is there a way to do this?
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Posted: 6th Jun 2006 10:48
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There are I think 3 ways that I know of.

1. Use something like this:
write string 1,"strcpy(GameData[1].name, \""+name$+"\");"
Which inserts "\" or it might be "/" not too sure.
2. Use the character code
I'm not too sure what the code is off the top of my head, but use the ASCII of the " and use the chr command.
3. On some versions of DB you can just use ""+name$+"" and it will work fine. It does in mine.

I hope I helped -- I'll try to find the character code for the "

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Posted: 6th Jun 2006 21:11
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It's 034, I found an ACII table. Thanks for that, option 2 worked brilliantly. So I ended up with this:

WRITE STRING 1,"strcpy(GameData[1].name, "+CHR$(034)+name$+CHR$(034)+");"

Thanks for the help. (:
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