RE: Apostrophe in field name?

That's what I thought, Hans.  Thanks for the reassurance.  I'm going to ask
for some actual code to see what's going on.

Brad



> -----Original Message-----
> From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:16 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: 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
> 
> +---
> | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List!
> | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com.
> | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
> | To unsubscribe from this list send email to 
> RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
> | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: 
> david@midrange.com
> +---
> 
+---
| This is the RPG/400 Mailing List!
| To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com.
| To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com.
| To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com.
| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com
+---