Better way of string concatenation / joining?

[renpycoder]

My visual novel involves third person point of view. I just noticed that in renpy, let's say you want something like this:

"Hey, I can't do that!", said Johnny.

^ This right here is hard to execute. If we do use ' ' around the " ", it can't be because you're using another single comma ( ' ) as an apostrophe.

Is there a better way of dealing with this?

Thanks in advance!

[Milkymalk]

You can use backslash \ as an escape character, so \' will work as a ' inside ' '.

[Imperf3kt]

Another practise is simply to do things like this:

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'"Hey, I can't do that!", said Johnny.'

You'll notice I used ' to open and close the statement.

I usually use a mixture, so I can't say which is 'better' than the other, but both ways will work.

[Ocelot]

Another practise is simply to do things like this:

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'"Hey, I can't do that!", said Johnny.'

You'll notice I used ' to open and close the statement.

I usually use a mixture, so I can't say which is 'better' than the other, but both ways will work.

And you might notice, that another single quote inside string breaks this statement. And, for some reason, RenPy does not supports triple-quoted strings.

I feel like line example in Creator-Defined Statements is exactly what is needed here:
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/cds.html#example

[Imperf3kt]

Oh right, I totally missed that. In that case, yeah, use backslashes or atleast escape the apostriphied "can't"