Re: Apostrophe in field name?

Brad wrote:
>One of my customers just explained to me that they have the apostrophe
>character in a field name.
>
>For example,
>
>C              eval   LOCALITA' = 'NEW YORK'
>
>The field LOCALITA'.  I didn't know this was possible.  Anyone else seen
>this?  Is there anything on a system that will tell me when this is
>possible?

If it works for them, then they're not using the ILE RPG compiler
that I helped develop!  Apostrophes are simply not valid characters
for identifiers.  For that statement, the tokenizer will return the
following tokens:  identifier LOCALITA; string literal ' = ';
identifier NEW; identifier YORK, and an invalid unterminated string
literal.  An error message will be issued on the ' = ' literal since
the parser expects either a "=" or "(".

Maybe there are some funny codepage things going on, but I'm sure
the apostrophe is an invariant EBCDIC character.  Maybe the "@", "#",
or "$" maps to some glyph that looks like an apostrophe in some
EBCDIC code page?  That's all I can think of right now.

Cheers!  Hans

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

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