open and closing quotes?!
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Topic: open and closing quotes?!
Posted By: Lucent
Subject: open and closing quotes?!
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 1:19pm
| Can anyone tell me what is the differences between open and closing quotes or the standard double quote? Thank you in advance!! |
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 1:31pm
| Well, double shows up as a single in a response.write, a single would close |
Posted By: Lucent
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 1:40pm
| can you give me an example line of each? thank you! |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 1:52pm
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well: response.write("The man said; "hello how are you" and I ate pie") would return an error response.write("The man said; ""hello how are you"" and I ate pie") would return: The main said; "hello how are you" and I ate pie |
Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 1:54pm
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well in ASP if you do <% response.write("hello world")%> you cant use quotes in it or it will end the "response.write" so you will have to use <% response.write("hello ""world""")%> the double quotes will cancel it out, so it will show this would end up writing... hello "world" i think the person above was talking about the the ' thing you could use that would look like <% response.write("hello 'world'")%> hope this helps |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 4:11pm
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you should be able to use an apostrophe without it returning an error. ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 27 June 2003 at 6:29pm
Unless you are passing the string to a SQL statement and then you will have to replace all instances of the single quote (') with to single quotes (''). NOTE those are apostrophes (') and not quotes ("). I think a lot of the confusion is in the use of single and double quote. To most, this (") could be a single quote, and this a double quote (""), but we use the apostrophe as a single quote (') and the normal quote (") as double quote. ------------- L. Jamal Walton http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming |
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