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From: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Quotes in scripts
Message-ID: <1104@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 13:30:17 GMT
References: <2558@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <2558@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> hume@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Heather Hume) writes:
>Does anyone know how to insert quotation marks (") into fields and scripts from
>within a script. .......

Yea:

put quote & "Your quoted text" & quote into variable

I also created a function to do this

function quoted theText
  return quote & theText & quote
end quoted

Tehy I can write:

put quoted("Your Quoted text") into variable

Larry Landry
University of Rochester