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Single-message string won't take quotes in message box!

Yiannis Ioannides — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 06:01:34 +0000

Hi everyone,

I am really frustated here. I am trying to have a single-message string, let’s say “hello” and I am trying the backslash trick like so: “hello” and it comes out as ” hello” (with a space.)

I tried many different combinations, but nothing works.

I even tried [tosymbol] but it returns everything with quotes BUT a single-message quote.

Any insight on the matter?

Thanks,
Yiannis

Re: Single-message string won't take quotes in message box!

broc — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:13:05 +0000

I think the quotes of “hello” are redundant within Max and thus ignored/removed.

Do you need them for something special outside of Max?

Re: Single-message string won't take quotes in message box!

Peter Ostry — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:23:56 +0000

I am not able to produce “hello” in a message box, this may depend on the behavior of the box itself. Maybe it is possible with [sprintf ...]

But if you [print] “hello” to the Max window, it shows up as “hello”, so probably it works for you anyway?

If you need it for display
purposes only, you could send
set “hello”
to a comment object.

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Re: Single-message string won't take quotes in message box!

Yiannis Ioannides — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:32:33 +0000

Thanks for your responses folks, turns out I didn’t need the quotes after all! I just wanted to use [absolutepath] and I wasn’t sure whether I needed quotes in the messages or not, but turns out you need quotes for a larger message string.

Yiannis

Re: Single-message string won't take quotes in message box!

Patrick Delges — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:59:44 +0000

Quotes are necessary to deal with spaces in messages, and especially with filepathes. You should use tosymbol to automatically add quotes if necessary (i.e. if there are spaces in the path).