dereferencing double-quotes in C

How do you dereference double quotes in C? I need to concatenate
double-quotes(") with a word so the result would be "word". I wrote
something like:

char *quote = malloc(sizeof(char)*2);
quote = ""\0";
name = strcat(name,quote);
name = strcat(name,word);
name = strcat(name.quote);
find(name);

Word is a word taken as a command line argument. I need name to be the
same as :

char *name = "CProgramming";

Obviously I am doing something wrong. If someone could help me out I
would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,
Natalie

"lnatz" <nmrabinovich@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> How do you dereference double quotes in C? I need to concatenate
> double-quotes(") with a word so the result would be "word". I wrote
> something like:
>
> char *quote = malloc(sizeof(char)*2);
> quote = ""\0";
> name = strcat(name,quote);
> name = strcat(name,word);
> name = strcat(name.quote);
> find(name);
>
> Word is a word taken as a command line argument. I need name to be the
> same as :
>
> char *name = "CProgramming";
>
> Obviously I am doing something wrong. If someone could help me out I
> would greatly appreciate it.
>

"\""

"\"foo\""

> Thank you,
> Natalie
>

"lnatz" <nmrabinovich@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1160958452.056883.300760@k70g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
> How do you dereference double quotes in C? I need to concatenate
> double-quotes(") with a word so the result would be "word". I wrote
> something like:
>
> char *quote = malloc(sizeof(char)*2);
> quote = ""\0";
> name = strcat(name,quote);
> name = strcat(name,word);
> name = strcat(name.quote);
> find(name);
>
> Word is a word taken as a command line argument. I need name to be the
> same as :
>
> char *name = "CProgramming";
>
> Obviously I am doing something wrong. If someone could help me out I
> would greatly appreciate it.
>

"\""

"\"foo\""

> Thank you,
> Natalie
>

char *quote = malloc(2); /* a char type is the default
printf("\"%s\","\"%s\"name, quote);

char *quote = malloc(2); /* a char type is the default
printf("\"%s\","\"%s\"name, quote);

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, lnatz wrote:
> How do you dereference double quotes in C? I need to concatenate
> double-quotes(") with a word so the result would be "word". I wrote
> something like:
>
> char *quote = malloc(sizeof(char)*2);
> quote = ""\0";
> name = strcat(name,quote);
> name = strcat(name,word);
> name = strcat(name.quote);
> find(name);

cr88192 has told you how to escape a double-quote in a string or
character literal in C --- the same way you escape any other special
character, with a backslash. (Carmen miranda posted nonsense; ignore
it.)

But your post indicates that you don't know anything about C, which
means you should be picking up a copy of Kernighan and Ritchie's
"The C Programming Language" and reading it *starting with Chapter 1*.
Don't try anything complicated until you understand how functions and
variables work; and don't try anything with strings until you understand
pointers. C is an unforgiving language that will not warn you if you
try to do something dumb.

If you want more help learning C, alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ is thataway
<----

-Arthur

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, lnatz wrote:
> How do you dereference double quotes in C? I need to concatenate
> double-quotes(") with a word so the result would be "word". I wrote
> something like:
>
> char *quote = malloc(sizeof(char)*2);
> quote = ""\0";
> name = strcat(name,quote);
> name = strcat(name,word);
> name = strcat(name.quote);
> find(name);

cr88192 has told you how to escape a double-quote in a string or
character literal in C --- the same way you escape any other special
character, with a backslash. (Carmen miranda posted nonsense; ignore
it.)

But your post indicates that you don't know anything about C, which
means you should be picking up a copy of Kernighan and Ritchie's
"The C Programming Language" and reading it *starting with Chapter 1*.
Don't try anything complicated until you understand how functions and
variables work; and don't try anything with strings until you understand
pointers. C is an unforgiving language that will not warn you if you
try to do something dumb.

If you want more help learning C, alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ is thataway
<----

-Arthur