Sharing: Use quote for values you do not expect calculation

I encountered a problem in my SeleniumPlus test with below statement.

EditBox.SetTextValue(myTextBox,GetVariableValue(Map.myTitle));

This statement is to write a string to a textInput component. But if the string get from function “GetVariableValue(Map.myTitle)” contains minus symbol “-“, the string filled in the textInput becomes to “0”. My coworker explained to me that this is because the string is treated as expression and the value “0” is the calculation result.

She gave me a workaround for this kind of problem: to add “quote” around the function as below.

EditBox.SetTextValue(myTextBox, quote(GetVariableValue(Map.myTitle)));

And this worked successfully for me.