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Date: 21 Nov 92 03:36:30 GMT
From: noc.near.net!inmet!spock!stt@uunet.uu.net  (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Outputting quote marks
Message-ID: <1992Nov21.033630.6060@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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In article <By13E7.4q5@plato.ds.boeing.com> 
  rosen@plato.ds.boeing.com (Robert Rosen) writes:

>I need to use Text_IO to output a string consisting of three
>consecutive quote marks (""").  How can I do it?  Trying 
>
>  Text_IO.Put_Line (""""");
>
>produces a compilation error.

Try:
   Text_IO.Put_Line("""""""");  -- That's 2 + 3*2 = 8 quote marks

Inside a string, two consecutive quote marks represent one quote
mark.  Hence, you should never have an odd number of quote
marks in a string.  See RM 2.6(3).

>Bob Rosen
>Boeing
>rosen@goofy.ds.boeing.com
>206-773-2852

S. Tucker Taft  stt@inmet.com
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA  02138