How to Concatenate Strings to create large string which contains"" inside

How to Concatenate Strings to create large string which contains"" inside in object script

Hi Developers,

I need to construct a string as xml which consists of "" in it. As example below

set teststr ="<book id="bk105"><author type="old">Corets, Eva</author><title>The Sundered Grail</title><genre>Fantasy</genre></book>"

giving error in the area where " in middle of the string (highlighted in bold)

Could anybody suggest to me, how to construct a static string in object scripts with " in it?

Product version: Caché 2017.1

prashanth ponugoti · Jan 26, 2022

you can take any text editor and replace " with ""_"

Example:

"<book id="""_"bk105"""_"><author type="""_"old"""_">Corets, Eva</author><title>The Sundered Grail</title><genre>Fantasy</genre></book>"

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Sreevani Goli · Jan 26, 2022

Thanks, Prashanth, It is working fine.

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John Murray · Jan 26, 2022

To use a " character within an ObjectScript string literal, double it:

set teststr ="<book id=""bk105""><author type=""old"">Corets, Eva</author><title>The Sundered Grail</title><genre>Fantasy</genre></book>"

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George James · Jan 26, 2022

Hi Sreevani

In ObjectScript you can include a double-quote character inside a quoted string by doubling it up.

set teststr ="<book id=""bk105""><author type=""old"">Corets, Eva</author><title>The Sundered Grail</title><genre>Fantasy</genre></book>"

Since in this example, your string clearly contains html you might find that using single-quotes inside your string would be cleaner and easier to read, making it more maintainable:

set teststr ="<book id='bk105'><author type='old'>Corets, Eva</author><title>The Sundered Grail</title><genre>Fantasy</genre></book>"

George

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