On 02/21/07/02/07 21:10 +0900, Harold Hausman wrote: >It looks like you're running into the fact that when you create a >string literal with a single quote (') it's treated differently than >when you construct the literal with double quotes... Yes. I know. My question is: how to convert the one variant ('') into the other variant ("") at runtime? As I said in my first post, I can do that using eval or using gsub, but both have problems. Does anybody know another way of converting ''-strings into ""-ones? -eyal