EscapeString

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 7/8/07 11:04 PM, "Steve Albin" <steve at steve-albin.com> wrote:

Hi Steve,

> Here's what the WIKI says:
> 
> res = Valentina.EscapeString( "Valentina's (day)", 0 )
> // res is "Valentina\'s (day)"
>  
> res = Valentina.EscapeString( "Valentina's day", 1 )
> // res is "Valentina\'s \(day\)"
> 
> Of course, for REALbasic, the second parameter must be a boolean, not an
> integer.  
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?  I have the following:
> 
>     nameStr = Valentina.EscapeString(pText,bool)
>     
> I enter Valentina's (day) into pText but regardless of whether bool is true or
> false, I get "Valentina\'s (day)".  The parens are not escaped even when the
> second parameter is set to true.

SECOND PARAMETER is deprecated.

    Now no difference for LIKE and REGEX.
    Hardly remember why now ...
 
> This is on the Mac with V4RB 3.01.
> Am I reading the docs incorrectly?

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

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