Escape quotations in VBS

[CyberNerd]

Simple question - how do I escape " in a vbscript ?

 

I want "this text echoed" including the "

[ChrisH]

Drives me insane. You usually dou double quotes sometimes triple or single quotes in double quotes. Show me what you want to do it with exactly and I can tell you.

[CyberNerd]

Thanks. double quoting did it

[ChrisH]

Good good. Check out this fun I had building the command line for a recent image coversion wrapper:

 

StrCMDLine = "c:\imagemagick\convert.exe " & """" & CombinedPath & """" & " " & """" & OutPath & """"

[acb_]

Aaaarrggggh!! Escaping quotes in vbs is my arch-nemesis!! :twisted:

[ajbritton]

If you are starting to lose track of things, then you can always use chr(34)

MyCmdLine = "App.exe " & chr(34) & "C:\Path with spaces\file.dat" & chr(34)

 

Sometimes it's easier that way.

 

The other thing I do is to create an Enqote function

function Enquote(sSource)
 Enquote = chr(34) & sSource & chr(34)
end function

 

Then you can do

MyCmdLine = "App.exe " & Enquote("C:\Path with spaces\file.dat")

[acb_]

If you are starting to lose track of things, then you can always use chr(34)

MyCmdLine = "App.exe " & chr(34) & "C:\Path with spaces\file.dat" & chr(34)

 

Sometimes it's easier that way.

 

The other thing I do is to create an Enqote function

function Enquote(sSource)
 Enquote = chr(34) & sSource & chr(34)
end function

 

Then you can do

MyCmdLine = "App.exe " & Enquote("C:\Path with spaces\file.dat")

 

That's a nice approach. Thanks

[ajbritton]

Just thought of another way...

MyCmdLine = Replace("$$C:\Path with spaces\file.dat$$", "$$", chr(34))