Re: How do I handle strings with " characters in it in METAPOST?

[Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>]

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> On 29 Mar 2020, at 14:35, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gerben Wierda schrieb am 29.03.2020 um 14:30:
>>> On 29 Mar 2020, at 12:58, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Gerben Wierda schrieb am 29.03.2020 um 12:52:
>>>> I am using MetaFun (Lua code) to create METAPOST commands from an XML file. One of the issues I am running into that in METAPOST I have to handle strings with " characters in them and METAPOST doesn’t like those. The argument using the string
>>>> Foo "Bar” Foo
>>> 
>>>     ^^^
>>> 
>>> Use correct left quotation marks or \quotation{…}.
>> I’m not hard coding the string, I’m reading it from an XML. So, whatever I do, I need to do it by manipulating the string.
>> E.g. if the string I read contains
>> Foo "Bar” Foo
>> your suggestion means  I have to programmatically change that to
>> Foo \quotation{Bar} Foo
>> which is too complicated, given that I don’t have regular expression replace at my disposal.
>> I might be able to change al “ instances into something else by walking through the string and building a new one.
> 
> Your example uses " before Bar and not “ which is the problem.

Yes, I am aware that that is my problem. It is just that I do not have the luxury to decide myself what will be put in the string. It must work for any string. So, I will have to be putting that string to \type and make sure that is used as the label.

G


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