Hi, I'm trying to merge some text fields using a calculation. I can enter text surrounded by quotes, like this: "some text" & " " & "more text". But how do I quote quotes within quotes? Like this: "some text" & """ & "more text". Obviously that doens't work... Using the word 'quote' doens't help either. Can someone give me a clue? I'm amazed FM is not able to quote quotes. I couldn't find anything in the manual nor the filemaker techinfo database, which seems to be down once again. I would like to prevent using seperate fields for just the 'quote' character. If I would do that the result would be this: "some text" & quote & "more text". Doesn't sound that bad, yet there has to be an easier way, right?

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Dodge

You need to use an extra set of quotes. Search this forum because the question has been answered several times.

H

what i do.. is i make a global field and name it quote... then i put a quote in that field, then i delete that field off of any layout so it isnt seen by anyone.. it should still keep the quote in it.. then anytime i need to have a quote in teh calculation field, i just call that field..

so the calc field would look something like this

quote & "Wow, this is so cool." & quote

then when the calc field is displayed on the layout it should look like this.

"Wow, this is so cool."

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oops, sorry i missed the end of you post about trying this already. oh well.. sorry, my bad..

[ May 14, 2001: Message edited by: bman ]

To enter a quote within a text definition, enter a double quote:

Example (calculation, text) =

"The following word ""example"" is in quotes"

-bd

Thanks BMAN and LiveOak,

I'll give it a try...

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Dodge

dude, Dodge, that is one wicked skull on your website. Got a temporarily down message but the skull was still pretty darn cool.

yafreax

(note to self: don't mess with Dodge)

It sure is!

dodge