* On May 04 16:14 Bob Lawrence wrote to All

 BL> Hello all,
 BL>            how do you put " in a string in Basic? If I want to 
 BL> print "Hello" (not Hello), I can't do it unless I use

 BL> print chr$(34); "hello"; chr$(34)          'or
 BL> print chr$(34) + "hello" + chr$(34)

 BL>   This can't be right! But everything else I try won't work, and 
 BL> the bloody book doesn't even mention it. What am I missing?

Most programming languages have you put the literal quote character twice
to print it once eg:

print ""Hello""

well it's kinda like that in pascal anyway.  I can't remember much of my BASIC

David
 

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