What I did most of the time was convert to hex
'PIPE literal X' || c2x(blah) '|......
Kris Buelens,
--- VM/VSE consultant, Belgium ---
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Op wo 17 feb. 2021 om 00:26 schreef Glenn Knickerbocker <n...@bestweb.net>:
> This is a frequent puzzle I shake my head at solving a different way
> every time: I need to pass a string to a pipeline stage, and it might
> have pipeline characters in it, and it might be null, it might or might
> not need delimiting, and it might or might not be a required argument.
>
> Optional delimited string:
> If str ¬== '' Then str = 'x' || str
> 'PIPE' blah '| strliteral' str '|' etc.
>
> Required delimited string:
> If str == '' Then str = "''"
> Else str = 'x' || str
> 'PIPE' blah '| specs' str etc.
>
> Literal string:
> 'PIPE var str | escape ,||/, | str'
> 'PIPE (end /)' blah '| literal' str'|' etc.
>
> When I'm just trying to pass the argument intact from an exec to a
> pipeline or from one stage to another, it's particularly unsatisfying to
> wind up sticking it in a variable first to do work on it. Have I
> overlooked something to make all this unnecessary?
>
> ¬R
>
