From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2011-01-11T07:17:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is this an invalid string?


On Jan 10, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Ben Bleything wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Siep Korteling <s.korteling@gmail.com> wrote:
>> str =  "#$"
>> 
> 
> So, yes, there is something special about "#$" :)

Just to be a bit more explicit...

There is a global variable named  $"

So in Siep's example, the parser is using the second quote as the name of the global variable and not as the closing quote for the string literal.


Gary Wright