creating string containing quotes (" ")

I'm trying to create a string that contains quotes and need some help.
I've tried strcat("my \"name\" is Tom") but this leaves the \ in the
result.
The result I want should look like this "My "Name" is Tom", can anyone
give me some direction on how to build this string.

 

printf( "%s" strcat("my \"Name\" is Svenn"))
gives
my "Name" is Svenn

so it seems that your string must be correct if it is used by some other
function accepting strings.

 

I've tried this, but I don't believe you can assign the printf result
to a variable to use in the future. I have also tried the sprintf
function, but this returns the \ in the result.

 

It's all to do with whether you display a string using the default print
representation of a string (which is in a form where the string could be
used as input, and hence displays the escapes), or using printf/sprintf/fprint
(as Svenn suggested) which shows the final intended output.

Regards,

Andrew.

 

What Svenn was trying to say is, the string actually holds what you want.
When you do the assignment, it displays with the escaped quotes :

a="some text \"quoted text\" some text"
=> "some text \"quoted text\" some text"

but when you use the string, its content is correct :

printf("%s\n" a)
=> some text "quoted text" some text

note, you do not need strcat().

stéphane

NB: i believe the value of string variables is displayed quoted to distinguish them from symbol
names and numbers. otherwise, you wouldn't be able to make a difference between 'a and "a", or
between 1.34 and "1.34".