RE: String value with an apostrophe ( ' )

[Gary Thornton <gthornton2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

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You're kidding, right Mike?  Man-oh-man, that hurts just looking at
it! <g>

Please tell me that this is harder to read than your example:
 parms = '"' + %char( fromDate ) + '" "' 
             + %char( jobDate )  + '" "'
             + Y + '" "'
             + Y + '"'

--- Mike Haston ** Data <MJH@jny.com> wrote:
> I finally went to the dark side and declared a constant for
> something like quote when I got sick of getting lost in OPNQRYF
> statements or parameter strings:
> 
> d QUOTE           c                   '"'        
> 
> cmd = 'SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(FCSHSTEDI) PARM(###PARMS###))';         
>                                                                    
> parms = QUOTE + %char( fromDate ) + QUOTE + SPACE                  
>       + QUOTE + %char( jobDate ) + QUOTE + SPACE                   
>       + QUOTE + Y + QUOTE + SPACE                                  
>       + QUOTE + Y + QUOTE;                                         
>                                                                    
> // replace 'tags' in the parameter string with parms               
> cmd = %replace(parms : cmd : %scan('###PARMS###' : cmd) : 11 );    
>                                                                    
> @qcmdexc( cmd );                                                   


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