Using Quotes in Quotes (if you see what I mean

Using Quotes in Quotes (if you see what I mean

[tonyg]

I'm playing with some xml in ada. I want to use "d="3"" but
unfortunately the 3 is not contained (according to ada) within the
string. Is there a nice quick dirty solution I can use here ?

btw thanks to whoever recommended ada on debian, its awesome!

Re: Using Quotes in Quotes (if you see what I mean

[J-P. Rosen]

Le 04/08/2011 18:28, tonyg a �crit :
> 
> I'm playing with some xml in ada. I want to use "d="3"" but
> unfortunately the 3 is not contained (according to ada) within the
> string. Is there a nice quick dirty solution I can use here ?

There is a nice quick clean solution: quotes in strings must be doubled:
"d=""3"""

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Re: Using Quotes in Quotes (if you see what I mean

[Jeffrey Carter]

On 08/04/2011 10:47 AM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>
> There is a nice quick clean solution: quotes in strings must be doubled:
> "d=""3"""

A more readable solution is to concatenate double-quote characters into the string:

"d=" & '"' & '3' & '"'

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Re: Using Quotes in Quotes (if you see what I mean

[Ludovic Brenta]

tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com> writes:
> btw thanks to whoever recommended ada on debian, its awesome!

Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it and I'm sure the other Ada in
Debian maintainers do, too.

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Ludovic Brenta.
Well-communicated tactics generate a selectivity. 

Re: Using Quotes in Quotes (if you see what I mean

[Simon Wright]

tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm playing with some xml in ada. I want to use "d="3"" but
> unfortunately the 3 is not contained (according to ada) within the
> string. Is there a nice quick dirty solution I can use here ?

XML allows either single or double quotes, so

  <foo d="3"/>

and

  <foo d='3'/>

and for that matter

  <foo d = '3'/>

are semantically identical.

Have you looked at XML/Ada? http://libre.adacore.com/libre/tools/xmlada/