On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 11:55:47 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>What is in mtxt? You display it with a say statement but didn't include the >>output in your query. Is it pssible that it include an apostrophe/ > >Excellent catch! Thanks! I forgot about that about apostrophe inside a >variable inside that line. Really confusing and certainly would trip a parser >into a black hole! ;-) > https://xkcd.com/327/
>Ok, it is a long time ago I had to handle a similar problem where lots of >apostrophes are in a parsed line. It is a real PITA to handle such characters >which could throw later parsing astray. > I applaud ISPF Edit for allowing, in some cases, a reference to a variable rather than constructing a command line containing the value of that variable. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
