Re: Quotation marks considered harmful

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You can simplify usi single instead double quotes:
echo '
<td width="25%" align="center">
<a
href="javascript:open_window(\'$php_self?action=view_record&userid=$userid\');">
view</a>
<a href="$php_self?action=delete_record&userid=$userid"
 onclick="return confirm(\'are you sure?\');">delete</a></td>
';


:)


-afan



> John Wells wrote:
>> Personally, I get tired (and confused) when having to escape all of
>> those quotes like in the string you're trying to echo above.  Perhaps
>> you'd consider HEREDOC as an alternative approach:
>
> Here's n idea I've had and never expressed publicly before. I wonder if
> some of you haven't thought the same thing:
>
> Why not develop a language syntax that has distinct open and close
> string delimiters?
>
> So (in an ideal world) the code in question
>
> echo "
> <td width=\"25%\" align=\"center\">
> <a
> href=\"javascript:open_window('$php_self?action=view_record&userid=$userid');\">
> view</a>
> <a href=\"$php_self?action=delete_record&userid=$userid\"
> onclick=\"return confirm('are you sure?');\">delete</a></td>
> ";
>
> would be rendered something like this:
>
> echo {
> <td width={25%} align={center}>
> <a
> href={javascript:open_window({$php_self?action=view_record&userid=$userid});}>
> view</a>
> <a href={$php_self?action=delete_record&userid=$userid}
> onclick={return confirm({are you sure?});}>delete</a></td>
> };
>
> or like this:
>
> echo [
> <td width=[25%] align=[center]>
> <a
> href=[javascript:open_window([$php_self?action=view_record&userid=$userid]);]>
> view</a>
> <a href=[$php_self?action=delete_record&userid=$userid]
> onclick=[return confirm([are you sure?]);]>delete</a></td>
> ];
>
> Of course, having separate characters for opening and closing double or
> single quotes would work, but that would require changing the basic
> ASCII set.
>
> I believe some European languages use "<<" and ">>" as quotation marks.
> What ASCII characters do they use?
>
> I have seen some JavaScript code that uses curly braces to delimit a
> string, but can't find that documented anywhere.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> --J
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