Problem:

Most internet programming requires scripts to produce dynamic interactive data. At some point you will need to send a string as a variable 'David is at work' which is fine but what happens when you need to use a hyphen in the sentence e.g. 'David's working' as you can see in a script the string is 'David' and the rest will cause an error.

Solution:

Well if your script allows it you could use "" quotes with ' inside

"David's working"

However there are lots of occasions where this wont work like in JavaScript when your calling a function on an event in which case you will need to use the escape character \

'David\'s working'

The backslash tells the script that the following character is meant to be displayed and not part of the script.

Example:

This will open up an alert window with David's working in it.

<img src="button.jpg" onclick="javascript:window.alert('David\'s working');">

Best, David Batey.

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