On 10/2/2016 3:13 AM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > //PIPE EXEC PGM=PIPE, > // PARM='< dd=pipe1 | join * , , | runpipe | > dd=sysprint'
Nice! But of course what Gil wants to avoid is that extra blank on the JOIN. In fact, what I'd do is probably STRIP TRAILING|JOIN * and then put any required blanks on the left. > | strliteral x0123456789abcdef And right there are two big ways of preventing mixups in command formatting: The STRxxxxx stages eliminate significant trailing blanks, and specifying strings in hex helps avoid accidental insertion of blanks and collisions with pipeline characters. ¬R
