parse double quotes in variable string

[spastica]

i am getting info from a form, and then setting the form field values into session variables using request.form to get the form values. these variables are then passed on and emailed to a user.

the problem is, some of the form field values have double quotes (eg. "one") and these are causing problems. I wrote a function that replaces all double quotes with ", which works fine on html pages, but does not show up as quotes in the plain text email that sends out the values.

is there a way to do this so that it works in both the html pages as well as the plain text email?

 

[mbiro]

replace(formdata,""","""") should do the trick

 

[spastica]

that doesn't work...i'm getting an error that says

Unterminated string constant

/includes/vars/pageOneVars.asp, line 8

ParseQuotes = Replace(strToRenderSafe,""","""")
-----------------------------------------------^

 

[vbkris]

ParseQuotes = Replace(strToRenderSafe,"""","DOUBLEQOUTE")


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[mbiro]

Sorry. Use:

ParseQuotes = Replace(strToRenderSafe,"""","""""")

 

[Tarwn]

If your already replacing with the " why not simply replace all of the "s with "'s before assigning the text to the email body?

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[JScannell]

I, too have had problems with double and single quotes. What I did, was replace the " with `
That way, I can use " to surround my strings and ' to surround strings inside the strings. e.g.:

response.write ( "<script language=""javaScript"">window.location='newpage.asp?parm=" & strSomeString & "';</script>" )

Now, let's say that strSomeString has ' or " characters inside it. That would surely ruin your call. By replacing " and ' with ` you get around the problem. Nobody will ever notice that there is a ` instead of a '.

Try it.
Jerry


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