Brace characters- '{' and '}' - in a string in a Progress .p fil

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Try the tilde as escape char

~{   and ~}

-chad


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:16 AM, ckrusen1@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

  
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  <p></p><p>I need to have the { and } characters in a string variable in a Progress .p file.</p><p><br></p><p>But the following line throws an exception</p><p><br></p><p>s = &quot;&lt;style&gt;table, th, td {border: 1px solid black;}&lt;/style&gt;&quot;.<br>


is there a way to escape the brace character?  Something like ' \{ ' ??


I guess I could use the CHAR (or whatever the actual ascii number to character function is).


but then that line would have to be:


s = "<style>table, th, td "+CHAR(123)+"border: 1px solid black;"+CHAR(125+")</style>".


but I would rather not.


Any help would be appreciated.

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I need to have the { and } characters in a string variable in a Progress .p file.


But the following line throws an exception


s = "<style>table, th, td {border: 1px solid black;}</style>".


is there a way to escape the brace character?  Something like ' \{ ' ??


I guess I could use the CHAR (or whatever the actual ascii number to character function is).


but then that line would have to be:


s = "<style>table, th, td "+CHAR(123)+"border: 1px solid black;"+CHAR(125+")</style>".


but I would rather not.


Any help would be appreciated.