Try using its ASCII code, for example: instr 1 prints "This \073 character is not a comment\n" endin i 1 0 0.0001 e On Saturday 10 June 2006 18:46, matt ingalls wrote: > is there a special code to add a ';' inside strings? > > it seems ';'s are always interpreted as the start of a comment no > matter what. > > [ 'prints' opcodes use "%!" to do semicolons btw ] > > maybe sprintf with a %c code would work, i forgot to try that.. _______________________________________________ Csound-devel mailing list Csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net