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  3. January 2003

Re: String value with an apostrophe ( ' )

Gary Thornton wrote:
> 
> Question:  Is x'7D' always an apostrophe for every CCSID?
> 

No.  It's x'7d' for every EBCDIC CCSID, but not every CCSID.

Better to define the constant this way

 * apos is a single apostrophe
d apos            c                   ''''

Even if you are sure, sure, sure that you will never run your code on a
non-EBCDIC platform, why write something that would cause a problem if
you ever did when there's a ccsid-independent way to write it that's
just as easy (if not easier).

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