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How i can insert quotes in quotes, like here :

#include <IE.au3>
Local $vboxcode = InputBox("Vbox7 downloader", "Enter vbox7 code.", "", " ")
Local $oIE = _IECreate ($vboxcode, 0, 0, 1, 0)
Local $sHTML = _IEBodyReadHTML($oIE)
Local $sExtract2 = StringRegExpReplace($sHTML, ".*<span class="title">.*</span>", "$1")
MsgBox(4096, "Test", $sExtract2, 1)
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horne,

From the Help file:

Strings

Strings are enclosed in double-quotes like "this". If you want a string to actually contain a double-quote use it twice like:

"here is a ""double-quote"" - ok?"

You can also use single-quotes like 'this' and 'here is a ' 'single-quote' ' - ok?'

You can mix quote types to make for easier working and to avoid having to double-up your quotes to get what you want. For example if you want to use a lot of double-quotes in your strings then you should use single-quotes for declaring them:

'This "sentence" contains "lots" of "double-quotes" does it not?'

is much simpler than:

"This ""sentence"" contains ""lots"" of ""double-quotes"" does it not?"

All clear? :)

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How should I write two sets of double quotes in a string?

For example, I want to pass the following to the command line:

"%Temp%VirusScanSetupVSE.Exe" /qb PRESERVESETTINGS=""

With previous versions of AutoIt, I'm pretty sure the following would work:

RunWait('"%Temp%VirusScanSetupVSE.Exe" /qb PRESERVESETTINGS=""""')

But now, when adding the "Command Line" column to Task Manager, I can see all four double-quotes passed at the end of the line. Is a double-quote no longer the escape character for a double-quote?

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the answer is in the post right above yours :/

You can mix quote types to make for easier working and to avoid having to double-up your quotes to get what you want. For example if you want to use a lot of double-quotes in your strings then you should use single-quotes for declaring them:

'This "sentence" contains "lots" of "double-quotes" does it not?'

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I've adopted the standard practice of using single quotes as it makes life easier when using double quotes. Also it's best to start a new topic and not resurrect an old one. Well then again reading the help file would've have been a better option of the two.

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Maybe I wasn't clear. I want to pass a *pair* of double quotes to the command line without the first double quote escaping the second. In my example code I used single quotes to enclose the entire string.

Here is my desired string. See the pair of double quotes at the end?

"%Temp%VirusScanSetupVSE.Exe" /qb PRESERVESETTINGS=""

If I simply surround the string with single quotes, the last double quote is stripped off.

This doesn't work:

RunWait('"%Temp%VirusScanSetupVSE.Exe" /qb PRESERVESETTINGS=""')

This used to work, but not with the latest version of AutoIt:

RunWait('"%Temp%VirusScanSetupVSE.Exe" /qb PRESERVESETTINGS=""""')

So I'd like to know what is the 'proper' method of passing consequtive double quotes? I can't find anything in the documentation about it.

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Ugh. It looks like double quotes no longer escape double quotes when enclosed in single quotes. I should have tried that.

It looks like this was a bug in SciTE (the obfuscator), not AutoIt, and I must have only read the changelog for AutoIt.

"Fixed bug with 2 double Quotes withing a doublequoted string"

http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/scite/docs/history.htm

This also affects 2 double quotes withing a single quoted string, and it's definitely a code breaker.

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That bug fix was for Obfuscator, it has nothing to do with AutoIt's functionality.

Here's the result of that string above when run through a consolewrite

ConsoleWrite('"%Temp%VirusScanSetupVSE.Exe" /qb PRESERVESETTINGS=""' & @CRLF)
; This is the result of the above, copied directly from your script
; "%Temp%VirusScanSetupVSE.Exe" /qb PRESERVESETTINGS=""

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