Re: Scan And Replace

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ron,

> Just had a program of mine blow up when the user keyed a subject line for
> an email message and used the " ' " in the field.  So when the CL program
> built the string for the submit job, the dang " ' " (single quote) caused
> the string to be built incorrectly.  For now I have the user keying two
> single quotes to indicate one quote.

Whaahuh?  Why are you submitting a job with a string like this?  Obviously
if you do that, you're going to have to be VERY VERY VERY careful about
the user's input.  Not just quotes, but all sorts of things could cause
problems.

Why not use something like a file, user space, data queue, data area...
anything...  to pass this data.  Or write the program so that it doesn't
need to submit a job?


> If this were an RPGLE program I'd use Scan and Replace to make each
> single quote two single quotes.  Looking for a more permanent solution
> that I could code so that I could replace the single quotes with dual
> single quotes.  Does anyone have any ideas?

What language is it written in?  This is the RPG mailing list.  If you're
question is "how do I scan for and replace a character in language XXXX"
then you should be asking it on the mailing list for language XXXX.

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