Adding quotes to a string in VBScript

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I have this code   a    xyz    g    abcd    amp  a     After running it  the value of g is abcd xyz   However  I want quotes around the value of a in g  After running the code  g should be abcd  xyz  instead   How can I accomplish this

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I don t think I can improve on these answers as I ve used them all  but my preference is declaring a constant and using that as it can be a real pain if you have a long string and try to accommodate with the correct number of quotes and make a mistake

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I designed a simple approach using single quotes when forming the strings and then calling a function that replaces single quotes with double quotes   Of course this approach works as long as you don t need to include actual single quotes inside your string   Function Q s       Q   Replace s            End Function        user  myself  code   70234  level   C   r    User      amp  user  amp      Code      amp  code  amp      Level      amp  level  amp       r   Q r  response write r         Hope this helps

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You can escape by doubling the quotes  g  abcd      amp  a  amp         or write an explicit chr   call  g  abcd    amp  chr 34   amp  a  amp  chr 34

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You have to use double double quotes to escape the double quotes  lol    g    abcd      amp  a  amp

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You can do like   a    xyz      g  abcd    amp  a     Or   a chr 34   amp   xyz   amp  chr 34  g  abcd    amp  a

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The traditional way to specify quotes is to use Chr 34   This is error resistant and is not an abomination   Chr 34   amp   string   amp  Chr 34

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I usually do this   Const Q         Dim a  g a    xyz    g    abcd    amp  Q  amp  a  amp  Q   If you need to wrap strings in quotes more often in your code and find the above approach noisy or unreadable  you can also wrap it in a function   a    xyz    g    abcd    amp  Q a   Function Q s    Q         amp  s  amp       End Function

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I found the answer to use double and triple quotation marks unsatisfactory  I used a nested DO   LOOP to write an ASP segment of code  There are repeated quotation marks within the string   When I ran the code   thestring     lt asp RectangleHotSpot Bottom      amp  bottom  amp      HotSpotMode   PostBack   Left     amp  left  amp         PostBackValue      amp xx  amp       amp  yy  amp      Right      amp  right  amp      Top      amp  top  amp       gt     the output was   lt  asp RectangleHotSpot Bottom  28    Changing the code to the explicit chr   call worked   thestring     lt asp RectangleHotSpot Bottom      amp  bottom  amp  chr 34   amp    HotSpotMode   PostBack   Left     amp  left  amp  chr 34   amp    PostBackValue      amp xx  amp       amp  yy  amp  chr 34   amp    Right      amp  right  amp  chr 34   amp    Top      amp  top  amp  chr 34   amp    gt     The output    lt asp RectangleHotSpot Bottom  28  HotSpotMode  PostBack  Left  0  PostBackValue  0 0  Right  29  Top  0   gt

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