From: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How do I handle strings with " characters in it in METAPOST?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 14:30:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E44E804A-C5FC-4F29-8FF5-8AD8393B3C99@rna.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4a4b3a5-96f0-d30b-8c7f-15ac5324023d@gmail.com>
> 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.
G
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-29 10:52 Gerben Wierda
2020-03-29 10:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-29 12:30 ` Gerben Wierda [this message]
2020-03-29 12:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-29 13:06 ` Gerben Wierda
2020-03-29 13:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-03-29 14:25 ` Gerben Wierda
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