Problem with Instr()

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daqx	(Posted 2005) [#1]

Hi,

I have to search for the " sign.

I used Instr like this:

Instr(a,""")

I was sure I'd become an error, but I don't know how to handle this.

Thanks.

FlameDuck

(Posted 2005) [#2]

Instr (a,Chr(34))

daqx	(Posted 2005) [#3]

Thank you!

badger

Perturbatio

(Posted 2005) [#4]

or use ~q

FlameDuck

(Posted 2005) [#5]

or use ~q

Speaking of which, what on earth is wrong with using traditional \" escape sequences?!?

I mean is there actually a rationale as to why BRL went out of their way to make it different than every other programming language in the world ever?

*sigh* I'll be using Chr(). It's oldskool!

marksibly

(Posted 2005) [#6]

Thanks to MS, '\' is actually a pretty common character in strings, and I didn't want to deal with the inevitable 'why doesn't "c:\myfile" work' complaints!

Also, I personally don't like the \" sequence - it's too hard to spot against the 'real' delimiter, eg: "\"\"" vs "~q~q", I prefer the second.

Perturbatio

(Posted 2005) [#7]

I like the BMax escape sequences as well actually, for exactly the same reason as Mark posted. So thank you Mark :)