[Info-vax] Quoting question

Bart Zorn bart.zorn at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 01:45:23 EST 2015


On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 5:32:23 PM UTC+1, JF Mezei wrote:
> Say I have:
> 
> $chocolate = "good"
> $cherry = "red"
> $flavour = "chocolate"
> 
> is there a way to have
> 
> $write sys$output "''flavour' is ?????????"
> 
> come out  as "chocolate is good"  ?
> 
> or would I have to do a substitution to a temporary variable first and
> use that temp variable in the write sys$output command ?

What is wrong with:

$ write sys$output flavour, " is ", chocolate

No quoting or substitution necessary.

Bart





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