string.join question

[Erik Max Francis]

mongo57a at comcast.net wrote:

> Trying to join a string as follows: string.join(['\,'aaa','\],'')
> (the last characters are 2 single quotes).
> I want a character string which looks like 'aaa' (with quotes).
> Anybody know
> what I'm doing wrong? or if this is possible with string.join?

If I understand you correctly (which I'm not sure that I do), try
something like

	string.join(["'", 'aaa', "'"], '')

If you insist on using single quotes, you can use '\'' instead of "'".

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