From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cf72236526e50aab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Jeff Carter Subject: Re: newbie question: the " character inside a string Date: 2000/05/24 Message-ID: <392C487B.3A7A18B9@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 626919178 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8ggcnp$83r$1@inf2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> <8ggrm2$ein$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ggste$fin$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 959207090 63.10.52.74 (Wed, 24 May 2000 15:24:50 PDT) Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jrcarter@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 15:24:50 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I tend to use '"' & "This is in quotes" & '"' because 1. "" in the middle of a string is ugly 2. It's easier to tell that the string contains '"' 3. People who have forgotten or didn't learn the "" special case don't have any problem understanding it. -- Jeff Carter "I unclog my nose towards you." Monty Python & the Holy Grail