any way to preserve quotes?

General TouchDesigner Discussion
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I have a $string:

start ch(“something”)

if I

set new = substr("$string",3,4000)

and then feed stick $new to a table

table mytable 0 0 “$new”

I don’t see any double quotes in the table

???
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Actually - let me rephrase the problem - MUCH SIMPLIER - much scarier…

I’m looking at a table - a row has:
chop(“…/chopnet1/OUT_bone1/rx”)

there doesn’t seem to be anyway for me to put that exact cell into a variable.

ie. set var = tab("table",0,0) - strips off the double quotes
set var = “tab('table',0,0)” - also strips off the double quotes.

and it’s not in the “echo” ing of that variable. In fact, I’ve tried:

table newtable 0 0 tab("mytable",0,0)

and also what I get in newtable doesn’t have double quotes …

I’m sure this has been discussed over and over - by me… I just need to be refreshed as to whether or not anything was ever done about it in terms of a workaround?

On that note, it would be awesome to have:

get_output(“tab(‘mytable’,0,0)”,myvar)

which avoids ANY issue with parsing and just sticks the exact output of a command into a variable - named $myvar)

tx
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3

it’s been there for at least a year

set text = `noevals(tab("table1",0,0))` print $text table table2 0 0 $text
or

table table2 0 0  `noevals(tab("table1",0,0))`