Can one search for a quote character inside text fields

David Thompson dthmpsn1 at uiuc.edu
Mon Mar 24 07:20:14 PDT 2008


>If Panorama simply does wrap
>whatever is entered into that Search field with a set of double
>quotes, why then is Panorama not searching for exactly what I
>entered?, a grouping of double quotes together with no space between
>them? After Panorama peels off the balanced quotes, there should be
>nothing left to search for. My original best guess was to search for
>'"' (single quote, double quote, single quote) but that too did not
>work although it seemed like it should.

Apparently the algorithm goes something like this. If the opening 
quote is a " character, then it starts scanning for another one. If 
it finds another one, and it isn't followed immediately by yet 
another, then that is the closing quote. If the second is immediately 
followed by a third, then the two of them together are considered to 
be a single character in the quoted string and it resumes its search 
for the closing quote.

If you use Excel to export a text file, and there are quotes in the 
text, you will see the same convention in use in the text file it 
produces.

Dave


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