Parse Outermost Quoted String

Martin

I am writing a script that makes an additional script on the data table as "New Script". But I am having a problem with parsing the string I have set up as the code to be placed in the new script.

The problem is when I run "dt << New Script("Script", parse(a));" when it parses the string, it assumes the quote prior to the Graph Builder is the first quote and then ends that quote at the beginning of the "Graph Title" section and ends.  I need to be able to write in the script that my script is writing to the data table, many quotes without them parsing when I go to place them in the script.

 

The code looks something like this:

 

a = "Parse(Eval(Eval Insert(
    "Graph Builder(
        ...
       Dispatch(
         ... ,"Graph Title",
       ),
       ....

    )"
)));

 

Mark_Bailey

I agree that you should learn how to use expressions, but you also need to learn how to work with character strings. Use the \!" escape sequence to enter a double quotation mark inside a string. Otherwise, the quotation mark is interpreted as a string delimiter as you discovered.