velocity string literal

[Gu Dake <fo...@hotmail.com>]

Hi,I wrote the following template code: 

#set( $value = "hello\"") 
$value 


The result is: 
hello\" 

not expected: 
hello" 

Can someone tell me how to write a string literal hello" 

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Re: velocity string literal

[Ch...@dlr.de]

Hi Gu,

velocity being a template language and not a programming language
does not support escaping as you tried. The fail-safe way of
doing this is:

#set( $qq = '"' )
#set( $value = "hello${qq}" ) $value


This has been discussed in other threads. In a future release
velocity might support quote escape by doubling the quote
itself, also in your example: #set( $value = "hello""")
which would remain backward compatible.

The velocity documentation and FAQ maybe needs to be *very*
clear on this quote issue to ease the learning cure for new
users.

-- 
:) Christoph Reck


Gu Dake wrote:
> Hi,I wrote the following template code:
> #set( $value = "hello\"") $value
> 
> The result is: hello\"
> not expected: hello"
> Can someone tell me how to write a string literal hello"
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