On 2018-04-10, at 23:57:31, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > User-Agent: AltaMail Classic > ... > Another way to accomplish this is to enclose the whole set of parameters in > quotes or double quotes, thereby creating a single string parameter. You can > keep the comata as separators *within* the string. > And you need to deal with the possibility that the arguments themselves contain commas.
> (NOTE: leading dots are there to indent text) > Didn't work. > /* remove enclosing quotes or double quotes *//* assumes quotes or double > quotes are used correctly *//* more code is needed to cope with unexpected > data */ > parm = strip( strip( arg( 1 ), "B", "'" ), "B", '"' ) > > do ii = 1 while parm <> "".. parse var parm parm.ii "," parm.. end > parm.0 = ii - 1 /* parm.0 now has the number of parameters passed */ > /* note that spaces around the comma will be kept *//* as leading and/or > trailing spaces in the stem variables */ > say parm.0 "parameters have been passed" > do ii = 1 to parm.0.. say "parameter" ii "is: >" || parm.ii || "<".. end > You need to use a stupider mail user agent. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
