How to? escaping & in text

[fpefpe]

Hello

What is the best way to escape the & in the gosub call

gosub cpy “Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v”

I have “cpy” defined as

:cpy [file]

when I reference “file” %file the string splits at the & — tcc esc is set to ^ so ^& does not seem to work

 

[vefatica]

Aren't the double quotes enough? I tried this little test.

v:\> type escapetest.btm
gosub xxx "a & b"
quit

:xxx [file]
echo %file

v:\> escapetest.btm
"a & b"

 

[vefatica]

Oh, I see ... wrong kind of quotes. Either of these seems OK.

v:\> type escapetest.btm
gosub xxx "“Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v”"
gosub xxx "Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v"
quit

:xxx [file]
echo %file

v:\> escapetest.btm
"“Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v”"
"Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v"

 

[vefatica]

Odd! Here it's split after "Celebrating".

v:\> type escapetest.btm
gosub xxx "“Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v”"
gosub xxx "Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v"
gosub xxx “Celebrating the Songs ^& Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v”
quit

:xxx [file]
echo %file

v:\> escapetest.btm
"“Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v”"
"Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Pete Seeger.m4v"
“Celebrating

v:\>

 

[fpefpe]

Thanks for the info --- I see where I need to esc the text

 

[Charles Dye]

Only the regular ASCII quotes are meaningful to the parser. The fancy Unicode quotes do not affect parsing; they're just ordinary characters.

 

[AnrDaemon]

Always quote uncertain variables. Saves from certain headache.