Thanks everyone. I suppose I should been able to figure that one out, but my mindset was that it was just a coding technique that I am not familiar with... I should read it as English... Live and learn.
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:48 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Some REXX help You can also make it a bit more readable, and less character set dependent, by replacing the \= with <>. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 10/20/08 11:11 PM, "Alan Ackerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:06:48 -0700, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot > e: > >> Ah, but the semicolon makes it two Rexx statements. The same as >> >> If rest¬sym; >> ='' then call ... >> >> Your syntax will be better if you remove the ; >> >> Regards, >> Richard Schuh > > Standard HTML entities like > and < start with an & (am > persand) and end with a ; (semicolon). > The whole string ¬sym; was supposed to be a NOT SIGN. True, if you > typed that into REXX, it > would think the ; was a statement separator. But you don't want to remove > the semicolon, you > want to map ¬sym; to / (slash) or \ (backslash) or not-sign. REXX > does not require a not-sign > -- I recommend using backslash. > > Alan Ackerman > Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
