Quotation mark
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A quotation mark delimits the start and end of a literal STRING value.
Usage: string_value$ = "This is a text STRING."
- The quotation mark must delimit the ends of a string or text prompt in a PRINT, WRITE, INPUT or LINE INPUT statement.
- The IDE may add a missing quotation mark at the end of a statement or function.
- LINE INPUT allows quotation marks to be entered as user input. The LINE INPUT (file statement) can transfer quotation marks.
- Quotation marks should be used when commas are used in a literal WRITE or INPUT (file statement) text string.
- To insert quotation marks in a PRINT statement insert CHR$(34) using string concatenation or semicolons.
- String values can be concatenated or added using the plus (+) operator. Cannot be used to combine numerical values!
- Concatenation MUST be used when combining literal string values in a variable definition.
- String values can be combined with other string or numerical values using semicolons or comma tabs in a PRINT statement.
- Literal DATA strings do not require quotation marks unless the value is a keyword, uses commas or has end spaces.
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