Two rudimentary questions: 1) If I'm creating a text array consta

robbier over 8 years ago

Two rudimentary questions:

1) If I'm creating a text array constant how would I represent a semicolon (since entries are separated by semicolons)

2) If I'm creating a text array in SAIL (e.g. {"1","2","3"} ) how would I represent the double-quotes? I think the answer here is to use a char function but wonder if there is another way to handle it.

I'm sure these are simple, I just couldn't seem to find anything on the News or Documentation that gave me an example for special characters in the above two questions.

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0 Mike Schmitt
Certified Lead Developer
over 8 years ago

#1 is a good question. I can't find any info on whether there's an escape sequence, etc.

#2 is actually not too difficult, though it's also not really obvious - you use double quotes inside a text string where you would want a quote symbol to appear. However due to confusion this could cause, I'd almost recommend instead to use the char() function, perhaps wrapped in a common expression rule used just for this purpose.
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0 Ishita Vedvyas
Appian Employee
over 8 years ago

For the second point, you could use two single quotes inside double quotes, to represent a double quote.
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0 robbier over 8 years ago

Thanks to you both. Just needed to do a sanity check on what I might have been missing.
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