Hi guys. I am a bit lost here and maybe someone can give me a hand. I have a string that may include a single quote inside. Say I have the string 'Sell ''13' . This string actually has a SINGLE quote, so if you print it in a file for example, you get 'Sell '13'. Of course, when you inspect the string in Pharo, it has 2 single quotes: 'Sell '' 13'. ok?

Now...what I need is (quite weird I know) is to build a closure as a string and using the previous string as a literal of the closure. 

Imagine there is no single quote problem in my string, this would work perfect: 

(Compiler evaluate: '[  ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell ' surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value.

But, if instead of having 'Sell ', I have 'Sell '' 13', like this:

(Compiler evaluate: '[  ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell '' 13' surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value.

I get a SyntaxError of a unmatched string:

[   Transcript show: 'Sell ' 13Unmatched string quote -> '] 

So...what can I do?  I GUESS the solution is to scape that. If I try adding 2 more single quotes, like this:

(Compiler evaluate: '[  ', ' Transcript show: ', 'Sell '''' 13' surroundedBySingleQuotes, ']') value.

it seems to work.  If this is correct, is there an easy way (a method?) to scape my string automatically so that it works?

  

Thanks in advance, 

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