URLRequest " or ' marks

[mavi]

Hi

Quick question:
should i use
URLRequest("http://domain.com")
or
URLRequest('http://domain.com')

" marks
or
' marks

THe funny thing is that both work but what's the difference?
Thanx

[evride]

nothing. with url's they won't matter much at all, but it's with other strings where you'll see it's use. like this

var str:String = 'John said, "Dude, AS3 is fun."';
or
var str :String = "It's gonna rain today.";

Just use one over the other when you have to slash out more of the ' or ". It's not like PHP where the " let's you insert variables within the string.

[wvxvw]

It's recommended that you use double quotes, since in many other languages single quotes mean char data type (i.e. 8 bits of data, or, 8-16 bits if the language uses UTF-8 natively). char is also a reserved keyword in AS3, so, you never know, maybe one day we'll see that data type in AS too.

[cjx3711]

I think that it's also worth mentioning that if you need both " and ' in one string, you can use the \ to work it.

For example if your string needs to be:

I said, "He's a good programmer."

The code would be
var str:String = "I said, \"He's a good programmer.\"";

[henke37]

Actually, utf-8 can be longer than 2 bytes, i think the maximum length was something like 5 bytes.

[wvxvw]

Actually, utf-8 can be longer than 2 bytes, i think the maximum length was something like 5 bytes.

Ah, yes, good point, wiki says it can be up to 4 octets.