Re: Data Structure with same physical file format and fields two times

On 03/10/2009, at 2:17 AM, Jim Essinger wrote:

Yes - it worked to remove the single quotes, but why didn't mine? The RPG
reference says that I can use either, and if it has a period, it _must_ be a
character literal. It also worked to put single quotes around capital
letter prefix. Single quotes around lowercase letters must be invalid.

RPG, like COBOL, is an upper-case language. Although both ILE variants tolerate code entry in lower-case the compiler mono-cases everything not in quotes (single (i.e., apostrophes) for RPG and either single or double for COBOL depending on compiler options).

By quoting a lower-case prefix you are creating an invalid RPG name (e.g., "orNAME", "orADDR", etc.) thus the compiler is quite correct when it complains about the parameter for PREFIX.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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