Ugh. This is really difficult for me too. It would be so easy for me to "spill the beans". But given this is an assignment. I can only point you toward the text that supplies you with the information you need to solve your problem. I gave you some other key words to search for, that would have armed you with the answers. Let me just suggest that quoting really is the key here. As is interpolation. If you continue down the page I gave you in the "reading assignment", and read the section "Gory details of parsing quoted constructs". You should also find clues to what you've done incorrectly. While doing so, think quoting quotes. That may help you discover what you need to know.

Best wishes.

--Chris

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