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# exec "SELECT * FROM dumpster WHERE style = ‘action’" # to

# exec "SELECT * FROM dumpster WHERE style = ‘$1′" #

$1 is a placeholder for anything. but this way i could work with tabs and wouldnt have to make so much different message boxes.

sorry if this may redundant or allready asked a bunch of times.

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how can i format this message
#    exec "SELECT * FROM dumpster WHERE style = ‘action’"  # to
#    exec "SELECT * FROM dumpster WHERE style = ‘$1′"      #
$1 is a placeholder for anything. but this way i could work with tabs and wouldnt have to make so much different message boxes.
sorry if this may redundant or allready asked a bunch of times.

message-formatting

You probably have trouble because of the quotes (w/o the quotes it totally works right out of the box). sprintf could help you:

sprintf is something i never get completly!

thanks that worked!
sprintf is something i never get completly!


oh no not exactly. in order to keep the quotion marks backslashes are needed:

message formatting