Re: concatenate an apostrophe(') with character string

CL seems to understand quotation marks, too.  I've found that very helpful. A 
quotation mark seems to do the job of 3 apostrophes.

In <8025671D.0047CD57.00@gbsmtp.abb.co.uk>, on 02/19/99 
   at 01:16 PM, david.kahn@gbwsh.mail.abb.com said:

>KASHYAP VASWANI <kashyapv@wipsys.ge.com> 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'

>Kashyap,

>If you enclose a single apostrophe within apostrophes CL gets confused.
>If you enclose 2 consecutive apostrophes within apostrophes CL treats
>them as a single quoted apostrophe. Try the following.

>CHGVAR     &hdg   ('''' *cat 'Heading' *cat '''')

>or simply

>CHGVAR     &hdg   ('''Heading''')

>Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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