On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:05:41 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Do you think IBM would conceivably embrace the idea of PARM= honoring " >(quotation marks) as delimiters? > >PARM="'abc�*' PCRE2.TESTLIB(GRPIN)" > >would be a lot clearer than > >PARM='''abc�*' PCRE2.TESTLIB(GRPIN)'' > >I find products that allow the use of either " or ' to delimit strings to be a >lot easier to use. "Don't touch!" is a lot clearer (to me at least) than >'Don''t touch!'. > (What are the non-ASCII characters? MUA too smart by half?)
Rexx rules! Simply, characters introduced by symbol substitution are *never* recognized as metacharacters, so with simple doubling but not redoubling, and not resorting to alternate delimiters: verb = 'isn''t' phrase = verb 'good' sentence = 'This' phrase'.' say sentence prints: This isn't good. Lexical catenation is also valuable. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN