Multiline Strings

[motionman95]

Yo,

I have a string that has lots of ' " ' and other signs that would cause a string to break. This string is very long, and changes often. I would just use ' "" ' if I could. I want to be able to do something like this, and not worry about the ' " ' signs conflicting:

$string = (<r><![CDATA[

   "Polly goes for a walk, in "Central" Park"

]]></r>)

Is there a way to do this in Autoit?

Thanks in advance.

Edited July 23, 2010 by motionman95

[Pottery]

Depending on how long the string is, why not use & signs? Or check if there are any single quote signs (') and put the string inside of those, like $String = '@#$(*!@(#*!@#(!*@###(*$"$%"#$%"!#!@"#@$"@#$%@#$"').

[Pottery]

'Polly goes for a walk, in "Central" Park'

[motionman95]

@epdmk

The string is super long, it would take a long time to go through it. Plus it has a combination of ' and " symbols.

BTW, thanks for replying and trying to help.

Edited July 23, 2010 by motionman95

[Pottery]

Can you post the string?

[motionman95]

Can you post the string?

It contains...sensitive information...

[Pottery]

Ok, can you post an example that is similar?

[motionman95]

Ok, can you post an example that is similar?

Thanks for being so patient!

"if(bird = "'") { be='"' }"

Something like that, except super duper long. It's actually a JS file for a site.

[Pottery]

Are you declaring the lines of these strings yourself; where are they from?

[StandardUser]

I had a similar situation, so eventually ended up reading the long string from a file then assigning it to variable.

[motionman95]

@epdmk

Not understanding you - are you asking if the string is loaded, or if it is in the source of the au3? It is in the source of the au3.

[motionman95]

@871:

I was considering that, except that the compiled exe is going to be use on multiple machines.

[Pottery]

Well I was thinking in terms of making it an array instead.. if your grabbing the information for this string from a website or text file it would be as simple as that, an array.

[motionman95]

@epdmk

I'm sorry, earlier when I said "JS file" I meant it is a string of Javascript...

But could you explain your Array idea?

Edited July 23, 2010 by motionman95

[Pottery]

Example:

#include <INet.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
$String = _INetGetSource('http://google.com')
$String = StringSplit($String, '"')
_ArrayDisplay($String)

[Pottery]

In terms of what 871 said then you could try:

FileWrite('tempfilename.txt', 'text')
$String = FileRead('tempfilename.txt')
FileDelete('tempfilename.txt')
MsgBox(64, 'Example', $String)

[JohnOne]

Does It matter whether the end string has single or double quotations throughout the string?

[motionman95]

@epdmk

I don't need the string turned into an array, (o_O). I just need to be able to do this:

"Polly goes for a walk, in "Central" Park"

Without worrying about getting errors. I also asked the question because I noticed that some languages had ways to do this...

[motionman95]

Does It matter whether the end string has single or double quotations throughout the string?

Not understanding...?

[JohnOne]

You have for example the string "'Mary' had a little "lamb", its nose 'was' "red" and 'white'"

Would it matter to your script if it were ""Mary" had a little "lamb", its nose "was" "red" and "white""

?