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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