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'How To: : Write quotation marks to a text file 
'Posted: 07-July-98
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Q: I need to add a line similar to the following to a text 
file using Visual Basic 5.0 and can`t get the quotation 
marks to work.

set var b "george"


A: Try to join the string with the embedded "chr(34)" like so:

String = String & chr(34) & " Hello " & chr(34) & "!"
Print String

this would look like:

"Hello"!

A: As far as I know (and that`s not all that far), you cannot 
include a quotation in a string by typing it in. VB, of course, 
considers it to be one of the string`s delimiters. However, you 
can include a Chr$(34), which is the ascii value for the quotation 
mark. Better, you might add the quotes when you write the string 
out to the file:

MyStr = "George"

Print #1, Chr$(34) & MyStr & Chr$(34)

Hth,

Bob Walsh