Can't get Arthur to speek correctly!

[George]

Hi there Henk!

Thanks for your idea. James and Jeff already fought the fact (Unbeknownst to me) that I had somehow used “smirk” quote marks in my code, and after replacing those with “un-smart” quotes, everything works fine.
Thanks,

George

On Nov 12, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Hendrik van Eeden <hvaneeden at comcast.net> wrote:

> I shave seen this kind of thing before.  My way around it was to set a variable to the temperature and then use the variable in the say command.
> set x to value of “Current Real Outside Temperature B2"
>> say x & " degrees Fahrenheit is the current outside temperature here on Cedar.”)
> 
> 
> 
> Henk
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 12, 2014, at 11:54 AM, George <ghandley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Jeff and Marcel,
>> 
>> This AM I’ve tried both your suggestions, for which I’m most appreciative, and many more variations, but unfortunately get the same results.
>> 
>> Here they are, and I suggest you try them on your systems substituting any variable number unit to see if either works for either of you. This just can’t be that hard. The compiler will stop on the first quote mark in either line. :-(
>> 
>> say ((value of "Current Real Outside Temperature B2")   as string “ degrees Farenheit is the current outside temperature here on Cedar.”)
>> 
>> say (((value of “Current Real Outside Temperature B2”) as string) & " degrees Fahrenheit is the current outside temperature here on Cedar.”)
>> 
>> Have I somehow misinterpreted your instructions?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> George
>> 
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