RE: Embedded char in string

Thanks for you help.  This seemed to be the trick!

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Hall [mailto:peteh@inwave.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 1998 6:01 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Embedded char in string


At 14:57 10/15/1998 , Gary Lehman wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I know this may sound elementary, but does anyone know how to embed a tick
>"'" mark inside of a string in VARPG??

4 tick marks ('''') yields one in a variable in RPG. I'd expect it to be the
same, but I don't use VARPG. The reason it works is that double tick marks
are interpreted as a literal single tick mark, and each literal value is
required to be enclosed in tick marks.




Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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