Write string to file

[ErikJan]

String is: "TEST" [WITH the quotes]

If I do: Print #1, String

The file contains: TEST [Without the quotes]

Am I messing things up or is that normal? If the latter is true,how do I get the quotes transferred correctly???

[HansV]

Can you post the code that you use to set the string variable?

I tried the following, and it worked OK:

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Sub TestString()
    Dim f As Long
    Dim s As String
    f = FreeFile
    Open "test.txt" For Output As #f
    s = """Test"""
    Print #f, s
    Close #f
End Sub

Result:

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[ErikJan]

Sorry (formulated my question not clear enough again)..., the variable with quotes is a variable which I read from another file... That one contains the single quotes already.

So, I create a text file with "Test" in there (including the quotes). (So I do that either manually or by writing it out as """Test""").

Now the file if there. I read the content into a variable (say 's'). The variable now indeed contains "Test" (with one quote to the left and one to the right as I wanted).

Now it looks like if I now create another text file and do:

print #1, s

The content of that new file is Test (I lost the quotes)

[HansV]

That is to be expected. The Input instruction treats the quotes around the string as string delimiters. After reading the variable, you'll see "Test" if you hover the mouse pointer over the variable, but the actual contents of the variable are just the word Test without the quotes. You'll have to add quotes around the string again.

[ErikJan]

So if I'm losing the quotes in the input, I should probably "Line Input" then, right?

[HansV]

Yes, indeed.