[RESOLVED] Parenthesis in String?

[Arightwizard]

Hi, I'm trying to make a string use parenthesis ( "(" and ")" ), but for each one it returns: null (for the parenthesis)
How can I get this to work?

These are examples of codes I've tried so far:

public lpr as string = chr(40).toString()
public rpr as string = chr(41).toString()

...

public string1 as string = lpr & " " & rpr

(Didn't work, returned a space.)

public string1 as string = "( )"

(Didn't work, returned a space.)

public lpr as string = "("
public rpr as string = ")"

...

public string1 as string = lpr & " " & rpr

(Didn't work, returned a space.)

And then I tried reading from text files that had those characters. Each one only returned a space.
How can I get this to work?

Thanks,
-Arightwizard

[techgnome]

What do you mean it returned a space? those last two examples do work.... what are you doing to check the string afterwards that's causing a space to be returned? you should end up with a string 3 characters long.

-tg

[keystone_paul]

That is most unusual. There's nothing special about parentheses so it should be no different from doing

public string1 as string = "a a"

[Arightwizard]

@techgnome:
Sorry, forgot that part
Later I'm using string1 in a "sendkeys.send".
So it would be

public string1 as string = "( )"
sendkeys.send(string1)

(No, I am not making any sort of 'bot'.)

[Siddharth Rout]

Try this

Public string1 as string = chr(40) & " " & chr(41)

[Arightwizard]

Try this

Public string1 as string = chr(40) & " " & chr(41)

Still returned a space.

[keystone_paul]

I'm using string1 in a "sendkeys.send".

That does make rather a large difference.

If you are using sendkeys you need to enclose the characters in braces... ie "{(} {)}"

[Siddharth Rout]

public string1 as string = "( )"
sendkeys.send(string1)

sendkeys.send("( )") '<~~ What is this supposed to do?

[Arightwizard]

That does make rather a large difference.

If you are using sendkeys you need to enclose the characters in braces... ie "{(} {)}"

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thanks, it worked.
-Arightwizard

*marking as resolved*