Re: newbie question: the " character inside a string

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

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

> what do i have to do if i want to include a " inside of a string?

I know you already got a RTFM answer, but most manuals I have seen don't
properly address string handling in Ada (it really ought to have its own
chapter) and the LRM seems like overkill for such a simple question.

There are two simple ways (I know of) to do this:

  1)  Catenate a quotation character to your string eg:

   Value : constant String := "The name is " & '"' &
Some_String_Variable & '"';


  2)  "Escape" the quotation character in the string literal with
another quotation character:

   Value : constant String "= The name is """ & Some_String_Variable &
"""";


If you are using emacs, you'll probably want to stick to method 2, since
method 1 throws off Ada-mode's colorization.

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