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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace double quotes with a single quote within a double quoted string Post 302899992 by wisecracker on Friday 2nd of May 2014 05:15:44 PM
Old 05-02-2014
OK, we have established that these _odd_ quotation marks can be anywhere in any field inside the file.

1) Will there be more than three quotation marks in any one field?
2) Will there be ANY possibility of any other SINGLE quotes in any particular field?
3) Will every field be COMMA separated?
 

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NAME
form_new_page, set_new_page, new_page - forms pagination SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lform -lcurses [ library... ] #include <form.h> int set_new_page(FIELD *field, int bool); int new_page(FIELD *field); DESCRIPTION
set_new_page() marks field as the beginning of a new page on the form. new_page() returns a boolean value indicating whether or not field begins a new page of the form. RETURN VALUES
new_page returns TRUE or FALSE. set_new_page() returns one of the following: E_OK The function returned successfully. E_CONNECTED The field is already connected to a form. E_SYSTEM_ERROR System error. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
curses(3CURSES), forms(3CURSES), attributes(5) NOTES
The header <form.h> automatically includes the headers <eti.h> and <curses.h>. SunOS 5.11 31 Dec 1996 form_new_page(3CURSES)
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