E-Recruiting Questionnaire Characters in Smartforms

We have some E-Recruiting questionnaires that we are rendering in smartforms. Some of the questions have aposthrophes in them like if 'yes' please give details. These questions are being retrieved and passed into the smartform as a string (as there is a loop that does all of the questions) and are being rendered in smartform using
cl_hrrcf_cs_sf=>save_temp_text_preview
and
gs_thead
in an include text.
The problem is that it is coming out as if #yes# please give details. I have debugged the code and checked that at the point the data is passed into the method that it contains quotes and not hashes.
Any advice?
Thanks
Rich
Edited by: Richard Stanton on Nov 13, 2008 12:12 AM

Hi Naresh,
Thanks for your help...
Thats very helpful information. And i need liitle more help here...
i have to upload some quotionnaire data into SAP programatically... and that data shd be related to APPLICATION... i mean in HRP5141 with ND object..
Which class can i use for this purpose??
And i think i have to create objects for Questionnaire and question???... to upload data programatically...
In steps...
1. have to create objects for VB , VC
2. use class to upload data into HRP5141 for the particular application ID(NB)

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