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Re: Comparing against the single-quote symbol '
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djfiander |
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Re: Comparing against the single-quote symbol ' |
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Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:25:02 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Jun 10, 1:07 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
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> Sure. The symbol \' has no variable value by default. If you don't
> want to access its variable value but rather its symbol, you need to
> quote it. And sure enough
> '\'
> works just fine (even though it looks misleadingly symmetric).
Of course, if you want to see if the variable 'prefix' contains the a
single quote character, then you probably want to say
(equal prefix ?')
- David