Escaping the " in Send command

[jrchandran]

Hi,

How do i escape using the " inside a send command. Lets say i want to send a line which includes a word that needs to be pre-fixed and suffixed by ", it gives me an error. How do i escape this. Please help me here.

eg : Send ("The name of this country is "USA" and i love to live here")

In the above sentence i want "USA" to be printed as well, it gives an error as it thinks The name of this country is to be one part of the line and and i love to live here to be the other part.

thanks,

ram

[cdkid]

send('this is a " quoteed word"')

single quotes for the win (next time, please read the help file)

~cdkid

Edited July 31, 2007 by cdkid

[SkinnyWhiteGuy]

Well, the reason it things that the line is broken up, is by using the same quotes in the string as you tried to use around the string, AutoIt thinks the String is stopping before you want it to. Course, other languages do this, too, not just AutoIt.

There are 2 ways to usually solve this. If your string is like yours, where what you want to send only contains one type of quotation marks in it, change the surrounding marks to the opposite one. In your case, since you need " in the string, put ' around the string.

Now, if you need both kinds of quotes in your string, you'd need to "escape" those characters. In AutoIt, there's no easy to do it as in other languages, so you can use the above method, putting strings together using & when you need to swap, or use the Chr() function (still using &'s) to insert the other character when needed.

For example:

; Simple Fix
Send('The name of the country is "USA" and i love to live here')

; More Complex Fix
Send("The name of the country is " & '"USA"' & " and i love to live here")

; Final Complexity Fix
Send("The name of the country is " & Chr(<insert number of " character>) & "USA" & Chr(<same number as before>) & " and i love to live here")

This works the same with just assigning values to strings, as it does with strings as arguments to functions.

[jrchandran]

hey SkinnyWhiteGuy,

Thanks for your help. Works like a charm.

ram

[enaiman]

To say it shorter:

If you want to send a quoted word "blahblah" always use double quotes and it will work ""blahblah""

Your example:

Send ("The name of this country is ""USA"" and i love to live here")

The other solutions works very well too. Personally I use the above style; this way I don't need to worry about mixing things.

Edited July 31, 2007 by enaiman

[SkinnyWhiteGuy]

Hmm, I didn't know about that way of escaping quote characters. Very concise. I like it.

*Puts new trick into bag.*

Thanks enaiman.

[enaiman]

You're always welcome