Michael Hills ([email protected]) asked:
> It seems that the general style when entering text in dialog boxes
> is that you don't need quotes, but you can put them in if you want
> to. However, in db label, labelling a dataset with "Blah blah"
> produces the command . label data ""Blah blah"" and an error
> message. The behaviour I expected is that you would get . label data
> "Blah blah" whether you enter quotes or not in the dialog box.
>
> Is this a bug?
The Dialog Mistress says no. The dialog box needs to put quotes here.
Otherwise when a user puts a string with spaces into this dialog box,
s/he will get an error. It is quite reasonable to label a dataset
with a string with spaces in it. It is my sincere belief that when a
user, such as Mr. Hills, puts "Blah Blah" (quoted) into that box and
sees the output and error that s/he is going to figure out how to fix
that in a huge hurry.
Nick Cox suggested perhaps these should be compound double quotes.
Now, I may be missing something here, but I haven't yet found a good
way to do that in this dialog programming context. So regular quotes
it is, until I (or a Dialog Minion) becomes enlightened.
--Jean Marie
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