About strings in NSIS.
--- a/nsis.rst Mon May 17 17:21:21 2010 +0300
+++ b/nsis.rst Mon May 17 17:26:52 2010 +0300
@@ -1,21 +1,20 @@
-*- mode: outline; coding: utf-8 -*-
-* String.
+* Strings.
+
+String is a sequence of chars. To represent spaces enclose string in quotes.
+To escape quote use $\. ${MACRO_NAME}, $(VAR_NAME) substituted with
+macros/variable values. To escape $ use $$.
+
+ MessageBox MB_OK "I'll be happy" ; this one puts a ' inside a string
+ MessageBox MB_OK 'And he said to me "Hi there!"' ; this one puts a " inside a string
+ MessageBox MB_OK `And he said to me "I'll be happy!"` ; this one puts both ' and "s inside a string
+ MessageBox MB_OK "$\"A quote from a wise man$\" said the wise man" ; this one shows escaping of quotes
* Variables.
Allowed chaacters for variable names: [a-z][A-Z][0-9] and '_'.
-** Macros definition.
-
-To define macro variable:
-
- !define NAME "STRING"
-
-To access to there value use such syntax:
-
- ${NAME}
-
** Variable definition.
To declare variable:
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@
To assign value to variable use:
- StrCpy $NAME "STRING"
+ StrCpy $NAME STRING
To access to there value use such syntax:
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@
To declare multilingual string use:
- LangString NAME LANGUAGE_ID "STRING"
+ LangString NAME LANGUAGE_ID STRING
For 'LANGUAGE_ID' use '${LANG_ENGLISH}', '${LANG_RUSSIAN}', etc.
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@
$(NAME)
-** Standard language strings.
+*** Standard language strings.
You can see list of such var under Contrib\Language Files\*.nlf files, which
loaded by 'LoadLanguageFile'.
@@ -55,3 +54,13 @@
To access to there value use such syntax:
$(^NAME)
+
+** Macros definition.
+
+To define macro variable:
+
+ !define NAME STRING
+
+To access to there value use such syntax:
+
+ ${NAME}