Re: concatenate an apostrophe(') with character string -- MIDRANGE-L

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Kashyap Vaswani wrote:
>Can somebody please tell me howto cancatenate an ' with character string
>because whenever you give
>   I want to concatenate HEADING with an (' ),one at front and one(' ) at
the >end
>i.e 'HEADING'
>     HEADING  cat ' ' ' will definitely give problem
>Any solutions ???

To code apostrophes within character literals in RPG,
you must code 2 apostrophes together.  For example,
in RPG IV, you would code:

     C                   EVAL      result = '''' + heading + ''''

(The same technique also works in RPG III.)

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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