I have a AutoHotkey script with:
IfInString, pp_text, %A_Space%
{
pp_text := %pp_text%
}
So in case %pp_text% contains a space I want to add " at the beginning and end
Example: pp_text = Hello World should then become pp_text = "Hello World"
How can I do this?
You escape a quote by by putting another quote next to it and you concatenate with the concatenate operator ., but actually you can also just omit the operator 99% of the time.
Other things to fix in your script:
Get rid of that super deprecated legacy command and use InStr() instead.
And when you're in an expression, you refer to a variable by just typing its name. Those double % you're using are the legacy way of referring to a variable.
So it's correct in the legacy command, but not in the modern := assignment.
And also you can omit brackets on one-liner if-statements. But that's of course just going to be down personal preference.
Full script:
If (InStr(pp_text, A_Space))
pp_text := """" pp_text """"
Four quotes since the the outer two specify that we're typing a string.
Variable names in an expression are not enclosed in percent signs.
Consequently, literal strings must be enclosed in double quotes to distinguish them from variables.
To include an actual quote-character inside a literal string, specify two consecutive quotes as shown twice in this example: "She said, ""An apple a day.""".
pp_text := "Hello World"
If InStr(pp_text, " ")
pp_text := """Hello World"""
MsgBox % pp_text
EDIT:
To use the name of the variable (not its literal text) in the output expression, you need four quotes, as the user 0x464e explained.
pp_text := "Hello World"
If InStr(pp_text, " ")
pp_text := """" pp_text """"
MsgBox % pp_text
This is not a V2 question from the looks of it, but this is the top result I get when looking for V2 quote escaping. You use a grave accent for it, for example:
path := "`"C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\ahk.exe`""
^ ^
In my AHK v2 install, this causes an error and AHK refuses to save the edited script. I've had better results after consulting the official documentation
So if my string has double quotes, as required by HTML:
"<div class="myClass">My text</div>"
I assign it to a variable (v2) this way:
MyVar := '<div class="myClass">My text</div>'
No more errors while saving. For me, anyway. Transitioning from AHK v1 to v2 in 2024 has me scratching my head from time to time, but I'm getting there.
