<div dir="ltr"><div>Actually, I did mention why doesn't 'processing' like this.....</div><div>I decided to just use chr -- tested and it works....</div><div>thanks all</div><div><br></div><div>Scott</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:01 PM, fpgroups . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fpgroups@gmail.com" target="_blank">fpgroups@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">A couple of suggestions<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1. Send quotes as literal enclosed within single quotes or escape the backslash by adding one or two more of them</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">2. Use chr</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">3. Dump to file and reference the file as parameter source</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That said, you made no mention of where this is happening, menu, shell or processing</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Feb 13, 2018 6:30 PM, "scooter6--- via Filepro-list" <<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.<wbr>com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="m_-3145860203064423400quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">If I'm wanting to pass my variable with double quotes included, why does<br>
processing not like this?<br>
<br>
aa=somedata<br>
<br>
ab="\"aa\""<br>
<br>
This simply returns literally  "aa"<br>
<br>
How do I get it to show   "somedata"?<br>
<br>
This doesn't work either    ab="\"{aa\""   or   ab="\"<aa\""<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
<br>
Scott<br></div></div><span>
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