How do I put a ' (apostrophe) inside a string of text?

Kmclane

I can't believe I have never run into this before, but how do you create a string of text that has an apostrophe within the string?
I am trying to send text (using constants to store the text) to an LED readerboard and think I remember there being a special character sequence that allows that.

a_riot42

Kmclane wrote: »

I can't believe I have never run into this before, but how do you create a string of text that has an apostrophe within the string?
I am trying to send text (using constants to store the text) to an LED readerboard and think I remember there being a special character sequence that allows that.

You can't.


Just kidding. Its its own escape character, similar to back slashes in other languages. Type the apostrophe twice to make it nice.
Paul

Kmclane

Thanks!
Digging feverishly through all of my old manuals and guides and couldn't (or should I say ouldn''t) find anything.
I suspected that was the solution, but then thought it would interpret as two text segments, right next to each other. Don't know why I just didn't compile and test.

Colzie

Wow, thanks Paul! I always used hex 27, but your way is much cleaner.

"'Ben', $27, 's Rm'"

"'Ben''s Rm'"

ericmedley

Colzie wrote: »

Wow, thanks Paul! I always used hex 27, but your way is much cleaner.

"'Ben', $27, 's Rm'"

"'Ben''s Rm'"

Ha! I did this same thing too up until about 3 years ago. I still run into old code where I found I did this.

a_riot42

Colzie wrote: »

Wow, thanks Paul! I always used hex 27, but your way is much cleaner.

"'Ben', $27, 's Rm'"

"'Ben''s Rm'"

I haven't seen the escape characters documented anywhere, so we are left to our own devices. I'm sure this stumps everyone the first time.
Paul

GSLogic

Just to be a smart but - I've always used:

"'Ben', 39, 's Rm'"
You can also use this for temp degrees °

jjames

There's Gary again - always wanting to be different!

I do the double apostrophe as well.