Re: How to insert a character in a string in RPGLE

This is why is use the hex constant:

Use a hex constant x'7D' for a single quote and concatenate or move as
needed.   Something like the following:

D  SQUOTE         C         x'7D'

C   eval @Animal = 'aa' + squote + 'rdvark'

Donna Bryant, CCP
Peek Software Services, Inc
Savannah, Ga
(912) 598-9245
www.peeksoft.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Keck" <dkeck@idt.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: How to insert a character in a string in RPGLE


> Some of the other posts are trying to address what they understand to be
> your overall problem, so I won't go there.  But yes, quotes are special
> characters because that are used as string delimiters, as in
> C   eval  @Animal = 'aardvark' ... the quotes don't appear in the variable
> @Animal.  If you want the variable @Animal to contain  aa'rdvark  then you
> would code
> C   eval @Animal = 'aa''rdvark'  ... which is basically to say, code it
how
> you would like it to look, then go back and change every place where you
> want a quote to appear in the string from one quote to two quotes.  When
> concatenating fields you could do it this way  ...
> C   eval @Animal = 'aa' + '''' + 'rdvark'  ... the apostrophe is like any
> other string in that it needs one apostrophe to the left and one to the
> right as delimiters.  Then you need the apostrophe itself, which is a
> special character, so you have to put two of them, and that makes four
> altogether.  ''''   ugly huh ?   -DaveK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: mariame@SIAMTL.COM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 12:52 PM
> Subject: Re: How to insert a character in a string in RPGLE
>
>
>
> Hello David,
>
> i've already done what you have explain to me, but my problem that i want
to
> insert a quote <'> i think it's a special character ????
>
> thanks lot
>
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