Re: command string to long for STRPCCMD PCCMD() -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: command string to long for STRPCCMD PCCMD()
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:34:56 -0600
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Looks like escaping the ampersands was the issue.

Along the way though Mark pointed out that since I was using sql anyway, why not use:

https://www.rpgpgm.com/2017/02/why-i-should-be-using-qcmdexc-sql.html

Which looks like New Plan A for me.

On 11/22/2019 1:35 PM, Peter Dow wrote:

Hi Booth,
...

It looks to me like you need to somehow escape the ampersands (&). I used a caret (^) and it worked:

C:\Users\Peter>start https://samples.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/group?id=524901,703448,2643743^&units=metric^&appid=b6907d289e10d714a6e88b30761fae22

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