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Variable Declaration

I wrote an application that converts text to SGML. VB application and it works great.

BUT:

I use an array to hold the various tags for the SGML.

Ex.

varData(13) = "<title>" & Title & "</title>"
varData(14) = "<tgroup cols='4' colsep='1' rowsep='1' align='left' charoff='50'>"
varData(15) = "<colspec colname='col1' colwidth='0.55in'><colspec colname='col2'

PROBLEM: The sgml editor "Arbor Text" encloses attributes with a " not a '

Ideally: My array's should not alter the syntax. cols='4' should be cols="4", colsep='1' should be colsep="1"

Question: Is there a way to code a variable as strCols = "cols="4" " or strFour = ""4""

bp

-Bender-

Try strFour = """4"""

-Bender-

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Dang123

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Dang123

Guess I typed a little to slowly ; )

brianpowell

ASKER

Dang123

really...

i'll do the test.

pretty fast response. thanks

bp

EDDYKT

You can also use

Chr$(34)

ie

strFour = Chr$(34) & "4" & Chr$(34)

brianpowell

ASKER

pretty straight forward.

varData(14) = "<tgroup cols=""4"" colsep=""1"" rowsep=""1"" align=""left"" charoff=""50"">"

After looking at it a second time why wouldn't work...

bp

brianpowell

ASKER

EDDYKT

I also like your response.

but the points have been assigned.

bp

-Bender-

Retry: try """4""" instead of ""4""

;-)

grnathan

Is there a way to code a variable as strCols = "cols="4" " or strFour = ""4""

Ya we can do that

If you want doubquotes in a variable value you have to use that in 2 times

e.g. (strcols = """cols=""4""") and strfour = """4"""

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