On Mar 1, 2:43 ¨Βν¬ Εςιγ Γθςιστοπθεςσοξ Όεγθςιστοπθες®®®ΐηναιμ®γονwrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:10 PM, roger99999 <rscho... / gmail.com> wrote:
> > Silly question but I can't seem to find the answer online. I'm
> > submitting a search phrase in a scraper and I would like that to be in
> > quotation marks. Because the sterm="****" is already in quotation
> > marks in the code as:
>
> > sterm = "United States"
>
> > , I would have to do ""******"" and that generates an error. How does
> > one do this?
> > many thanks in advance and apologies for posting such basic questions!
> > Roger
>
> > The error I'm getting is the following.
>
> > $ ruby article_parse_27feb2010.rb
> > article_parse_27feb2010.rb:53: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT,
> > expecting $end
> >  ¨Βτεςν ΆΔουβμΕσπςεσσο χιτθ ΧθιππεΓςεανΆ >
> There are a few ways you can do it. If your string has double quotes
> around it, you escape the embedded double quotes with a backslash,
> thus "\"United States\"".
>
> Or you can enclose your string in single quotes and use the double
> quotes as-is (but not that this will not allow you to use #{...} or #$
> or #@ inside the string).
>
> Finally, you can do as Jesus said, and use %q followed by the string
> enclosed in some delimiters like { }, ( ), [ ], etc.; you can actually
> even use single non-alphanumeric delimiters like | |, as long as they
> match (and aren't used inside the string itself).

Jesus and Eric,

Perfect - my problem is solved. Many thanks again.

Roger