[Info-vax] A DCL wish list of sorts...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-03-17, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 11:49:41 AM UTC-4, Howard Taylor wrote:
>> Something I would love to see is the ability to easily use quotes (both single and double) in strings. Such a pity the single quote was selected for symbol substition.
>
> Define "easily"
>
> $ write sys$output "Print a double quote "" followed by a single quote ''''"
> Print a double quote " followed by a single quote '

Using an escape character is more readable IMHO. That would allow you
to write your example as something like this:

$ write sys$output "Print a double quote \" followed by a single quote \'"

Simon.

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