On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
On 26.07.2010, at 10:27, Marcus Denker wrote:
On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Norbert Hartl wrote:
Hi,
I tried to compile a method that returns a string. Is there a method to escape a string in a way that the compiler treats it as a string and not as code?
If you want to return something that again can be evaluated as a string, you can use double quotes inside:
Compiler evaluate: ' '' evaluate me, I am a String '' '
I want to compile a method
myString ^ 'arbitrary string'
So the problem is more of how would you do what you suggested having the string: evaluate me, I'm a String ?
If you alreadu have a string and you want to print it in a way that they compiler can evaluate it back, you can just use #printString on the string. printString calls storeOn:, which doubles any contained quotes and puts quotes around. This is called when doing a "print it", too. So one gets a bit confusted when doing a "print it" of 'hello' printString... it's called twice :-) Marcus -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.