Oscar, you should think of the question as: "what is the simplest piece of code that could take your string ('''''', which has two quotes in it) and return a new one with four quotes in it instead of two?"

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Cheers,
Peter

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Oscar Nierstrasz <oscar@iam.unibe.ch> wrote:

s := ''''''.
s size -> 2

works fine for me. am i missing something?

- on



On May 3, 2010, at 22:54 , Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:

> Stef,
>
> First, try #printString - it might do the job for you. �Failing that, you can do something like
>
> | out |
> out := WriteStream on:String new.
> self do:[ :c |
> �c = $' ifTrue:[ out nextPut:$' ].
> �out nextPut:c.
> ].
> ^out contents.
>
> I'll be interested to see all of the better ways to do this.
>
> Bill
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of St�phane Ducasse
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:48 PM
> To: Pharo Development
> Subject: [Pharo-project] how to simply double a ' inside string
>
> Does anybody know how to double a ' inside a string?
>
> Stef
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