B4P Reference

Introduction

Text inside single quotation marks can be used for

String values
Variable names
Table names

Rules

Use single quotation marks (apostrophes) ' ... ' to enclose the text.
Inside the quotation marks, all characters are fine, except the single quotation mark which delimits the text.
All white spaces inside the text inside quoatation marks are preserved.
- Example 1: 'Hello World' is not equal to 'Hello World'
- Example 2: 'Hello World' is not equal to ' Hello World '
The text must fit on the same line.
- Exception: Use Multi-line text using 3 consecutive quotation marks ''' (apostrophes) as delimiatersto formulate a text requiring multiple lines.
Reserved keywords inside quotation marks are treated as text, e.g. 'true'.
Various functions and comparisons support wildcard symbols
- Example 1: ABC = 'A*' returns true.
Character entities like € or € for the EURO symbol € are supported. They are converted quasi at compile time to target characters.
If the text is assigned to B4P variables, then the variable assumes the subtype softquoted string.

Examples

  echo( 'Hello World' );

  echo( '  Hello   World  ' );

  echo( 'One + One' );

  echo( '"In double quotation Marks"' );

  echo( 'Price tags: &euro; 10.00, &#x20ac; 10.00, &#8364; 10.00');

  echo( '3 * 2 = 6' );

  echo( 'A cheap way to continue on&#10;the next line' ); // Not recommended. Use '...', new line, '...' instead.

  echo( new line, 'Line 1', new line, 'Line 2' );

Hello World
  Hello   World  
One + One
"In double quotation Marks"
Price tags: € 10.00, € 10.00, € 10.00
3 * 2 = 6
A cheap way to continue on
the next line

Line 1
Line 2

Try it yourself: Open LAN_Features_Text_inside_single_quotation_marks.b4p in B4P_Examples.zip. Decompress before use.

Text Inside Single Quotation Marks

Introduction

Rules

Examples

See also