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Home > Forums > Programmers > Languages > Visual Basic(Microsoft): Version 5 & 6 Forum

trouble with apostrophe

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ttuser4 (MIS)
24 May 12 15:31
i am exporting data into a text file with this code:

sSQL = "Select [EMPID], [WDATE], [WTYPE], [WHRS], [PCODE], [WRATE] From WHOURS WHERE PAYPER=" & rst.Fields(0).Value & ";"
Set rs4 = New adodb.Recordset
rs4.Open sSQL, objAccessConnection, adOpenKeyset, adLockPessimistic
I = rs4.RecordCount
If I > 0 Then
While Not rs4.EOF
veta = rs4.Fields(0).Value & "," & rs4.Fields(1).Value & " 0:00:00," & rs4.Fields(2).Value & "," & rs4.Fields(3).Value & "," & rs4.Fields(4).Value & "," & rs4.Fields(5).Value
Put ff, , veta
rs4.MoveNext
Wend
End If
Put ff, , veta
Close ff

and I am getting this text:

479,5/14/12 0:00:00,O/T,1,90,8.75
479,5/14/12 0:00:00,R/T,8,90,8.75

but I need format with apostrophes so it would be like:

"479",5/14/12 0:00:00,"O/T",1,"90",8.75
"479",5/14/12 0:00:00,"R/T",8,"90",8.75

can you please help me to fix this?

thanks
ttuser4 (MIS)
24 May 12 16:04
ok, this Chr$(34) did it.
dilettante (MIS)
24 May 12 21:33
Er, those are quotes, not apostrophes.

There is a clean way to use quotes in a string literal:

CODE

S = """That's all, folks!"""

Using Chr$() is clumsy, slow, and awkward.
tedsmith (Programmer)
25 May 12 1:24
Never knew that before!
Andrzejek (Programmer)
25 May 12 21:35

If

Quote (dilettante)

those are quotes, not apostrophes

then what are double-quotes? smile

Have fun.

---- Andy

dilettante (MIS)
26 May 12 2:34
"Double-quotes" is a made up phrase. If you want to throw in U.K. "English" then things get even weirder, but not worry: VB and Windows don't come from the U.K.
strongm (MIS)
26 May 12 7:09
>those are quotes, not apostrophes

Nah! Technically, they’re primes ... winky smile

" Double prime
' Prime
“ Left double quote
” Right double quote
‘ Left single quote
’ Right single quote/apostrophe
dilettante (MIS)
26 May 12 7:19
Just don't start inverting your commas. [wink]
tedsmith (Programmer)
26 May 12 8:53
Interesting -
How do you produce left and right double quotes and the left single quote?
What are they used for?
PeterWallace (Programmer)
1 Jun 12 18:27
Set up a function
Public Function PutQuotes(ByRef txtToQuote As String) As String
Dim iASCII As Integer

iASCII = 34

PutQuotes = Chr(iASCII) & txtToQuote & Chr(iASCII)
End Function

and use as

WERE AName = " & PutQuotes(ASKFOR)
tedsmith (Programmer)
2 Jun 12 2:38
That just adds extra "quotes" (chr(34)) which according to stromgm is a prime

I have since found that the extra characters are in the vicinity of Chr(145)

What I meant was - what use in programming are these extra quote type masks as described by strongm (other than purely cosmetic)?
strongm (MIS)
2 Jun 12 5:12
>other than purely cosmetic

I'm simply being typographically correct
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