parentheses within string break value()

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Mon Oct 26 12:49:20 EDT 2015


Now I get "Abc"45"123(def)" in tTest. I'm not sure what you are expecting, but that is what is getting passed to value(). If you asked me to resolve that, I would probably toss a few errors, not to mention a few brews, back myself. 

Bob S


> On Oct 26, 2015, at 08:48 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But that's not quite what I'm looking at here.
> 
> put quote & "Abc" & quote & 45 & quote & "123(def)"  & quote into tTest
> 
> 
> gives the type of string I'm looking at.  That is, 123(def) is surrounded
> by quotes *in the string* being fed to value, and therefore should be
> treated as a literal, shouldn't it?
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.





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