[SOLVED] Autohotkey: How to add double quote (") to string

Autohotkey: How to add double quote (") to string

I have a AutoHotkey script with:

IfInString, pp_text, %A_Space%
                {
                    pp_text := %pp_text%                                    
                }

So in case %pp_text% contains a space I want to add " at the beginning and end

Example: pp_text = Hello World should then become pp_text = "Hello World"

How can I do this?

Solution

You escape a quote by by putting another quote next to it and you concatenate with the concatenate operator ., but actually you can also just omit the operator 99% of the time.

Other things to fix in your script:
Get rid of that super deprecated legacy command and use InStr() instead.
And when you're in an expression, you refer to a variable by just typing its name. Those double % you're using are the legacy way of referring to a variable.
So it's correct in the legacy command, but not in the modern := assignment.
And also you can omit brackets on one-liner if-statements. But that's of course just going to be down personal preference.

Full script:

If (InStr(pp_text, A_Space))
    pp_text := """" pp_text """"

Four quotes since the the outer two specify that we're typing a string.