Re: concatenate an apostrophe(') with character string

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:53 02/19/1999 +0530, KASHYAP VASWANI wrote:
>Can somebody please tell me howto cancatenate an ' with character string 
>because whenever you give
>   I want to concatenate HEADING with an (' ),one at front and one(' ) at 
>the end
>i.e 'HEADING' 
>     HEADING  cat ' ' ' will definitely give problem

You must double the apostrophe, so with a leading and trailing apostrophe,
the phrase '''' will be evaluated as ' . If it's embedded in a character
literal, the apostrophe would be coded like this:
  'Nothing''s wrong with this.'


Pete Hall
pbhall@execpc.com
http://www.execpc.com/~pbhall
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