Using quotes in a AppleScript string

Question

I am working with AppleScript and need to do this:

set TextToWrite to \" #!/bin/bash cd \"$( dirname \"$0\" )\" java -server -Xmx4G -jar ./craftbukkit.jar\"          


        

Answer 1

The following syntax can also be used:

set aString to "quoted"
set myString2 to "This is a " & quoted form of aString & " text."

Answer 2

quoted form of (dirname as POSIX path)

Answer 3

To insert literal quotes into an Applescript string, you have to escape them, i.e.

set myString to "This is a \"quoted\" text."

AppleScript has the same convention as most languages, which is to use a backslash for escaping of special characters, of which there are only two: quotes and … backslash. See the section “Special string characters” of the AppleScript Language Guide.

Answer 4

Using quotes in applescript is quite easy you just need to make the line end and start in quotes

E.G

display dialog "hello world"

but when you decide to put a variable in the text you must use &

set my_name to "michael"

display dialog "hello" & my_name

thankyou

Answer 5

set x to "He said   \" Enter the matrix.\"   "display dialog x

Just copy this into applescript the easiest way to understand.