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--- tips:quotesinstrings [2015/02/06 16:16] – [Apostrophes, Quotes, and Braces (Oh, my!)] jt3
+++ tips:quotesinstrings [2015/02/06 16:19] (current) – [Apostrophes, Quotes, and Braces (Oh, my!)] jt3
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 ===== Apostrophes, Quotes, and Braces (Oh, my!) =====
-Dealing with strings is usually pretty straightforward.  However, in LUA formulas, you're often mixing these strings with mathematical or string manipulation functions that require the use of some sort of string identifier.  Most people use apostrophes (single-quotes) or quotation marks (double-quotes) for this.  LUA doesn't usually care **which** identifier you use, but your string happens to use the same character as your identifier, LUA can get confused.
+Dealing with strings is usually pretty straightforward.  However, in LUA formulas, you're often mixing these strings with mathematical or string manipulation functions that require the use of some sort of string identifier.  Most people use apostrophes (single-quotes) or quotation marks (double-quotes) for this.  LUA doesn't usually care **which** identifier you use, but if your string happens to use the same character as your identifier, LUA can get confused.
 Okay, what does that mean?  Basically, it means that if your string has apostrophes, then you can't use apostrophes as identifiers.  Take the following:
    string.len('This way to John's house')
 Everything is great until you hit that apostrophe in the word "John's".  Suddenly, the string function thinks that it's reached the end of the string, and all hell breaks loose.  Okay, not really, but the formula will certainly fail.
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    string.sub([[{c1t}]],1,15)
+This way, your text item can have quotes OR apostrophies, and it will still be fine.  It can't have double-brackets, but if you're in the habit of doing that in your calendar items... well... stop it!