RE: qry manager queries and character replacement variables

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Almost there, Rick. Add another apostrophe to each set you have now, that 
you have 4 together. The outside ones make it a string, the inside pair is 
doubled, so that a single apostrophe is passed.

All replacement variables are character type. As you discovered, putting 
the apostrophes in the SQL statement means that the parser thinks they 
delimit a string.

If you hard-coded the string in CL, it'd be '''12345678'''  (that's 3 
apostrophes at each end).

Details are in the Query Management Programming manual, Appendix C. The 
manual is listed in the Database section of InfoCenter. Here's the Acrobat 
form <http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r1/ic2924/info/qmp/rbaromst.pdf>

Regards

Vern

At 01:24 PM 1/17/03 -0500, you wrote:

> Eric,
>
> do you have this backwards?  i.e. you don't put the quotes and +'s in the
> sql statement, but you build the variable in the CL like this:
>
> DCL &orgout *char (8)
>
> chgvar &orgout ('"' *TCAT &ORGIN *TCAT '"')     ?
>
> so that the value of the &orgout is    "CSR301"
>                                        12345678
>
> ?
>
> I tried that with single quotes, but it didn't work.  i'll try with doubles
> next.
>
> thanks,
>
> Rick