Syntax Error

[Kenneth Brody]

On 7/14/2014 12:13 PM, SmittyUSN1 wrote:
> OK, I give up .... it's got to be Moanday,  one of you genius's must know
> how to fix this.
>
> I need to assign this value  "C:\users\xxxxxxx\temp\"   to a real field.   I
> tried to assign same in input.prc   This generates a syntax error pointing
> to the last backslash after \temp\,  removing the last backslash the syntax
> error goes away.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> FP 5.0.14   Windows 7

If you need to put a quote within a string, you use backslash-quote.  For 
example:

     xx = "I said \"Hello\"."

If you really need to end a string with a backslash, there are numerous ways 
to do so.  A very common one is to have a space after the backslash and then 
remove it with the "{" operator:

     xx = "c:\users\xxxxx\temp\ " { ""

FYI - Depending on how you are going to use the filename (eg: if the 
filename is going to be used within filePro, and not passed to a SYSTEM 
command), you might be able to use forward slashes.

-- 
Kenneth Brody