On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 14:25:09 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >Quoted strings always gave me grief. I started to use Q='7D'X and >concatenate my strings this way: > >Str = Q||DsNAme||Q. >LISTDSI(Str) > I find that less transparent and surely more verbose than: LISTDSI( "'"DsNAme"'" ) or even: LISTDSI( ''''DsNAme'''' )
Programmers who eschew concatenation by abuttal are flaunting their unfamiliarity with the language. (But how does this play against the wise principle that self-defining terms should be assigned to symbols rather than used repeatedly: TWO = '2' SAY TWO + TWO ?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN