Hi, there.

#printString on String does the trick:

methodTemplateLua := 'lua ^ {1}'. methodSourceLua := methodTemplateLua format: { lua printString }.

Best, Marcel Am 22.08.2019 00:26:15 schrieb Jakob Reschke forums.jakob@resfarm.de: (including the list in addresses again)

Am Mi., 21. Aug. 2019 um 23:53 Uhr schrieb gettimothy <gettimothy@zoho.com [mailto:gettimothy@zoho.com]>:

"1. Can't you just replace each ' in your Lua text by '' (two single quotes) before compiling the Smalltalk method string? It escapes the single quotes in the string."

How?  I tried wrapping it with String Concatenation and it failed to compile.

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methodTemplateLua := 'lua ^ ''{1}'''.     methodSourceLua := methodTemplateLua format:        {lua copyReplaceTokens: '''' "four single quotes" with: '''''' "six single quotes"}.

Or for more comfortable reading:

lua copyReplaceTokens: (String with: $') with: (String with: $' with: $')

Still, I would avoid tinkering with the code and go with the (class) instance variable approach if possible.