Re: Eval variable = long text

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This honestly isn't that hard - Birgitta had a very easy and complete 
answer. The best advice I have is, keep it simple - but what is simple 
may depend on you.

You are dealing with continuation - I think Peter's example with 3 
apostrophes will not work - the third apostrophe closes off the string.

Either put single quotes at the beginning and end of each line, with a 
plus sign at the end, or have the single quotes only at the beginning 
and end of the string. In either case, embedded quotes need to be 
doubled - that's all there is to it - same thing we have had to do for 
25 years and more, actually.

I go back and forth between including the quotes on each line or not - 
often because I need to concatenate variables in the middle, which need 
the quotes to terminate each segment of the final string.

Perhaps look up "continuation" in the RPG Reference to get the true 
answers to your questions here. It starts at about page 247 of the 6.1 
manual in the US version.

HTH
Vern


On 2/15/2011 8:27 AM, David FOXWELL wrote:
> Hmm, not as easy as that it would seem. Lot's of different answers with different numbers of quotes around the apostrophe!
> I don't like the QUOTE constant, it just makes it less readable. But I suppose it saves one from having to remember how many quotes to use!
>
> Charles, RTM would have sufficed thanks. What does "A hyphen (-) indicates continuation is in the first available position in the continued field " mean?
> What's the continued field?
>
> Birgitta's translation is clearer : the text continues with the next (blank) character in the next row.
> Surely, that would be the character in column 8?
>
> Thanks all.
>
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Colpaert, Peter
> > Envoyé : mardi 15 février 2011 14:46
> > À : RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> > Objet : RE: Eval variable = long text
> >
> > David,
> >
> > Easy peasy:
> >
> > /free
> >     MyVar = 'This is a sentence of around ' +
> >             '130 characters containing ' +
> >             'apostrophes an'''all';
> > /end-free
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Peter Colpaert
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