Hi All,
I have a text field with the formula: “this is my favorite color: ‘blue’” and I want incorporate a variable on the last word. Note that these single quotes can’t be removed. So I would try this: “this is my favorite color: '”& [Favorite color] &“’” but Appsheet returns an error: could not be parsed due to exception: Unterminated string.
Has anyone encounter this problem?
I initially posted that question on this post but I’ve met this issue outside of using this quickchart.io.
Thanks!
This thread will probably help:
[How to prefix a single quote in a CONCATENATE?](https://community.appsheet.com/t/how-to-prefix-a-single-quote-in-a-concatenate/32916) Questions
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Try this as your end expression, based on the info in the above thread. Copy and paste it exactly.
“this is my favorite color: ‘“”& [Favorite color] &”’“”