enclosing variable in quotes

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Actually, I did mention why doesn't 'processing' like this.....
I decided to just use chr -- tested and it works....
thanks all

Scott

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:01 PM, fpgroups . <fpgroups at gmail.com> wrote:

> A couple of suggestions
>
> 1. Send quotes as literal enclosed within single quotes or escape the
> backslash by adding one or two more of them
>
> 2. Use chr
>
> 3. Dump to file and reference the file as parameter source
>
> That said, you made no mention of where this is happening, menu, shell or
> processing
>
>
> On Feb 13, 2018 6:30 PM, "scooter6--- via Filepro-list" <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
> If I'm wanting to pass my variable with double quotes included, why does
> processing not like this?
>
> aa=somedata
>
> ab="\"aa\""
>
> This simply returns literally  "aa"
>
> How do I get it to show   "somedata"?
>
> This doesn't work either    ab="\"{aa\""   or   ab="\"<aa\""
>
> thanks
>
> Scott
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