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mishutkin
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14 years ago

Problem with a single quotation mark in a string

Can't find a description of this problem anywhere... I have a script written in VBScript. I am trying to see if a string contains a substring that has a single quotation mark in it: String =...
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mishutkin
Occasional Contributor
14 years ago
Guys, thanks for your replies, but I already identified the problem, as I mentioned in my last post.

I read the string from an Excel data file and placed it in a text box on a web page. Then I searched for a substring in a string that was a part of an HTML object where I had placed it. The problem is that HTML replaced " ' " with " ’ " when the string was placed in an object on the web page. And these characters are not the same, of course...