[jawsscripts] Re: backslashes and their purpose clarified?
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:14:21 -0700
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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