Re: newbie question: the " character inside a string

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Martin Tobisch <tobiscmn@rupert.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote in
message news:8ggcnp$83r$1@inf2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de...
> hello everbody,
>
> i have a simple question :
>
> what do i have to do if i want to include a " inside of a string?
> for instance make the string: name="something"?
> can i write is as normal "name="something"" an ADA will ignore
> the inner "'s es as string delimiter and only look for the outest "'s es?
> or do i have to quote the " inside of a string with a special character?
>
Here is the relevant section of the Ada Reference Manual:

2.6 String Literals

1 A string_literal is formed by a sequence of graphic characters (possibly
none) enclosed between two quotation marks used as string brackets. They are
used to represent operator_symbols (see 6.1), values of a string type (see
4.2), and array subaggregates (see 4.3.3).

Syntax

2 string_literal ::= "{string_element}"
3 string_element ::= "" | non_quotation_mark_graphic_character

4 A string_element is either a pair of quotation marks (""), or a single
graphic_character other than a quotation mark.

Static Semantics

5 The sequence of characters of a string_literal is formed from the sequence
of string_elements between the bracketing quotation marks, in the given
order, with a string_element that is "" becoming a single quotation mark in
the sequence of characters, and any other string_element being reproduced in
the sequence.
6 A null string literal is a string_literal with no string_elements between
the quotation marks.

NOTES

7 5 An end of line cannot appear in a string_literal.

Examples

8 Examples of string literals:

9 "Message of the day:"

""                           -- a null string literal
" "   "A"   """"             -- three string literals of length 1

"Characters such as $, %, and } are allowed in string literals"


> thanks for any help
>
> Greetings MArtin Tobisch
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