DoScript Turducken ?! [JS] [AS]

Question

Is there any other way, besides storing a string value into a script argument to run a do script turducken style?

This works, although highly impractical I'm still curious how to do it in one line...

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"

    tell script args
        set value name "my_applescript" value "display alert \"DOSCRIPT TURDUCKEN\""
    end tell
    do script " var my_applescript = app.scriptArgs.getValue(\"my_applescript\");app.doScript((my_applescript), ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage);" language javascript

end tell

If declare a string value within a statement that already has escaped quotes, it results in the error: unterminated string constant.

~mike

D¡rk Becker · Accepted Answer

You need to quote your applescript literal, with one level of escapes.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"

do script " var my_applescript = \"display alert \\\"DOSCRIPT TURDUCKEN\\\"\";app.doScript(my_applescript, ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage);" language javascript

end tell

Dirk

Jongware · Answer

(Disclaimer: No AS man!)Perhaps the escaped quotes need double escaping: \" (NOTE: Three backslashes!)First way round, it gets parsed into the literal string ", second time it gets parsed into a single "[Post-edit thought] [Actually, Pre-post!] What is "Turducken"??

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