In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/10/2007
at 03:36 AM, David Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I have inherited responsibility for a CLIST; this is not my forte.
>I'm trying to do something pertaining to the ampersand character,
>and despite my efforts, I cannot figure this out. As God is my
>witness, this is not a homework assignment (I'm a BAL programmer,
I doubt it; in fact, I doubt that you're old enough to have ever seen
BAL. And you're certainly not using it on z/OS.
>The problem: I want each of the tokens in the generated string to be
> preceded by a double-ampersand.
Ouch! Ampersand handling in CLIST was bad enough before they
"improved" it in OS/VS2 Release 3.6! These days it can be tricky to
figure out how many ampersands you need, and tedious to type them.
>E.g., if the user enters "ACB", I want X to
>be set to "&&OPTA &&OPTC &&OPTB".
Isn't that HTML syntax rather than CLIST syntax? Shouldn't that be
"&&.OPTA &&.OPTC &&.OPTB"? Did you really want the letters
"amp" in the output, or did you intend to have a variable with the
name & and the value &? If the latter, didn't you want &.&
rather than &&?
>I have read the manuals, I have tried everything I can think of...
>but the ampersands have laid me low. Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
Have you read the documentation on "no rescan"? It will still be ugly,
but that should help. Pewrsonally, I'd rather do it in REXX.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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