StrReplace - escaping doublequotes failing - why? Topic is solved

[dwilbank]

So I'm trying to change the language text here by targeting the "en-US" with its actual surrounding quotes as well as adding in "ko" with its actual surrounding quotes

<tt xml:lang="en-US" ...

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newXML := StrReplace(theXML, "xml:lang=""en-US"", "xml:lang=""ko"")
newXML := StrReplace(theXML, "xml:lang=""en-US"", "xml:lang=""ko""")

Both of these fail though, with AHK's error saying that ko is somehow being read as an illegally named variable

Is there some other way to escape these?

[gregster]

Afaics, you have in both cases no closing quote in the second parameter, the Needle. Try
newXML := StrReplace(theXML, "xml:lang=""en-US""", "xml:lang=""ko""")

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newXML := StrReplace(theXML, "xml:lang=""en-US""", "xml:lang=""ko""")

[dwilbank]

The old triple-quote conundrum again.
Thanks sir!

[boiler]

The old triple-quote conundrum again.

Instead of thinking of it as triple quotes, just think that you need a quote at the start and end of your string, and anywhere inside that where you want a quote character, you need two of them. Trying to remember special cases where there are three in a row is unnecessary and just makes it confusing.