Re: newbie question: the " character inside a string

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <8ggcnp$83r$1@inf2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>,
  "Martin Tobisch" <tobiscmn@rupert.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
wrote:
> 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?
>
> thanks for any help


You *definitely* need to have access to an Ada text book. This
is a question that will be answered in any text book.
Alternatively you could look this one up in the RM, you will
find the answer in RM 2.6, entitled string literals, and the
answer is very easy to find there.


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