Using quote in transformation template

[Bokkie]

Goodmorning guru's,

How should I use quotes within a code section of a transformation template. E.g.:

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Class
{
 name="MyClass"
 language="C++"
 Operation
 {
   name="MyOperation"
   code="
printf( %qt%Hello world\n%qt% );
"
}


This gives problems in the intermediate language: The %qt% is directly translated into a quote and thus the quotes don't match anymore. (using build 791)

Thanks!

[Bokkie]

Here's a working example and the errornous output:

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Class
{
 name="test"
 Operation
 {
   name="test"
   code="
printf ( %qt%HelloWorld\n%qt% );
"
 }
}


and the output:

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Class
{
 name="test"
 Operation
 {
   name="test"
   code="
printf ( "HelloWorld
" );
"
 }
}


[Eve]

Actually, the quotes there are working exactly as intended.  The %qt% is a macro to the code templates to produce a quote symbol.

You can escape the quote symbol for the parser by generating a slash before it.

The other problem you haven't mentioned is the newline in your string.  You have to go to special measures to get a literal \n generated as that is automatically handled by the templates too.  I've added my modifications of your code here.

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$nl="\\" + "n"
Class
{
 name="test"
 Operation  
 {
   name="test"
   code="
printf ( \%qt%HelloWorld$nl\%qt% );
"
 }
}