[jawsscripts] Re: backslashes and their purpose clarified?
- From: "Bob Kennedy" <intheshop@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 17:56:18 -0400
I can see where learning anything extra about programming is a big help in
scripting. I'm just getting started in scripting and finding out how much I
don't know...
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From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 11:14 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: backslashes and their purpose clarified?
> Bob:
>
> Ok, well, as I stated in my post, this was an old C trick & I learned
> c back in the times when the dark ages seemed like a renaissance. At
> that time, u were pretty much told to always escape an apostrophe or
> a double quote, so I kind a do it reflexively now, rather like when
> the doc hits my knee w/the reflex hammer. In fact it's so reflexive
> sometimes I find myself putting a backslash before an apostrophe in my
> word processing documents lol. Pretty bad, isn't it?
>
> Jaws doesn't really recognize the apostrophe as a legitimate way to
> enclose characters like C does. What I mean by that is that Jaws
> doesn't have a different designation for character v.s. string, as in
> c. In C, for example, the following is perfectly legitimate--expected,
> in fact, whereas Jaws would throw an error:
> char c;
> c = 'a';
>
> So, truthfully, u could probly actually get away with:
> let s-text = "Dan's Mom's name is jan"
> But here is an example where a backslash escape character would be
> mandatory:
> let s-text = "Jim said, \"I don't like all this escape character
> business.\""
>
> Having said that, it doesn't do any harm to escape the apostrophe.
> Does that help?
>
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