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Re: ***SUSPECT*** Re: Eval variable = long text

On 2/17/11 10:22 AM, M. Lazarus wrote:
Note that the suggested technique might have issues when dealing
with different codepages.

At 2/17/2011 12:46 PM, you wrote:
Another nice trick is to use a variable for the single quote, then
you won't have to go back and replace anything.

D @Tic S 1A INZ(X'7D')



Different encoding schemes surely, but the apostrophe [SP050000] glyph is part of the "invariant character set" of all EBCDIC code pages whereby the code point x'7D' always represents the single-byte apostrophe character.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/nls/rbagsinvariantcharset.htm

Regards, Chuck

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