Escaping quotes and hash character

[flipside555]

I'm trying to concatenate the clipboard with some text to produce the following line

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<font color="#00ff00">[Clipboard]</font>

I've tried various escape sequences but cannot get it working. This version

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SendTag := "<font color=`"`#00ff00`">" . Clipboard . "</font>"

produces this error

The following variable name contains an illegal character:"00ff00""

When I hit the back tick key on my keyboard, nothing happens. If I hit it again, two back ticks are created. I don't know if that is related to the problem. I've also tried copying the back tick character from the Autohotkey documentation.

[Scr1pter]

I don't think you need this: `#
Just #

[TheDewd]

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SendTag := "<font color=""#00FF00"">" Clipboard "</font>"

You need to use double-quotes.

[Rohwedder]

Hallo,
back tick key is called a dead key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key
Without double-quotes:

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SendTag = <font color="#00ff00">%ClipBoard%</font>

[Delta Pythagorean]

AHK tends to have a bit of a lazy day when it comes to using escape characters, and double quotes are no exception. To put it simply, double quotes, turn into quadruple quotes. It's weird, makes no sense, and annoys me to high hell, but I got used to it by having my editor highlight certain escape characters in a certain color.

[swagfag]

how does it not make sense? it makes perfect sense. if ure in the context of a string(expression mode), to produce a literal ", escape it by prepending it with a ". it doesnt get any simpler than that

tbh if u got more quotes to escape than variables to shove in, do it the way Rohwedder showed
if u got an equal amount, Format() may be the tool to keep u sane

[flipside555]

Thanks for the replies. This is the working version.

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SendTag := "<font color=""{#}00ff00"">" . Clipboard . "</font>"