A SilkTest Test Suite cannot pass an argument containing "double quotes", how can this be remedied?

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A SilkTest Test Suite cannot pass an argument containing "double quotes", how can this be remedied?

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A SilkTest Test Suite file cannot pass an argument which contains "double quotes". The double quotes will be stripped from the argument during the exchange.

Passing in "C" to a script will result in the incorrect argument C being used by the testcase.

The following testcase and function, should help to resolve the issue. As the Suite will not allow double quotes to be passed, two single quotes " " are passed instead to the testcase ProcessArgs() , where the ConvertDblAposToQuote() function is called and will convert each of the two single quotes into a double quote on the script side.

Passing in " "C" " to the function below will result in the correct argument "C" being used by the testcase.

Contents of testsuite : example.s

example.t  a b ""C""

Contents of testscript : example.t

[-] testcase ProcessArgs ( ) appstate none
    [ ] BOOLEAN bCheck = TRUE
    [ ] STRING s
    [ ] LIST OF STRING lsArgs
    [ ] lsArgs = GetArgs ( )
    [ ] ListPrint (lsArgs)
    [-] for each s in lsArgs
        [ ] bCheck = TRUE
        [-] while bCheck
            [ ] bCheck = ConvertDblAposToQuote (s)
        [ ] print (s)

[-] BOOLEAN ConvertDblAposToQuote (inout STRING s)
    [ ] STRING s1
    [ ] INTEGER iPos = StrPos ("""",s)
    [-] if (iPos >0)
        [-] switch iPos
            [-] case 1
                [ ] s1 = """" + SubStr (s,iPos+2)
            [-] default
                [ ] s1 = SubStr (s,1,iPos-1) + """" + SubStr (s,iPos+2)
        [ ] s=s1
        [ ] return TRUE
    [-] else
        [ ] return FALSE

Results :

[-] Script example.t (a, b, ""C"") - Passed
    [-] Testcase ProcessArgs - Passed
        [ ] a
        [ ] b
        [ ] ""C""
        [ ] a
        [ ] b
        [ ] "C"

Old KB# 21824

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