RE: How many quotes does it need to work?

That’s beside the point. But appreciate your comment

The diff is that the commands is buried inside the source file. Using Constant declaration and %ScanRpl in a proc is to mho a clearer programming choice

Example:
// the &c get replaced by 1st by a command, the &l by the length of that command
DCL-C ###RMTSQL 'CALL &s/QSYS2/QCMDEXC(''&c'',&l)';

// here the &c gets replace by the above command
DCL-C ###RUNSQL
'RUNSQL SQL(''&c'') COMMIT(*NONE) NAMING(*SYS) OPTION(*NOLIST)';

Which after a few ScanRpl:
#str=%ScanRpl('&s':%TrimR($RSSYST):###RMTSQL);
#str=%ScanRpl('&c':#cmd:#str);
#str=%ScanRpl('&l':%Char(%Len(@Cmd)):#str);
#str=%ScanRpl('&c':@Cmd:###RUNSQL);

Gives:
CALL ISUP03/QSYS2/QCMDEXC(''CRTUSRPRF USRPRF(FLZ) PASSWORD(*USRPRF) PWDEXP(*YES) USRCLS(*PGMR) TEXT(''''fla'''') GRPPRF(*NONE) OWNER(*USRPRF) SUPGRPPRF(*NONE) SPCAUT(*ALLOBJ *JOBCTL *SPLCTL)'',156)



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I prefer something like this:

dcl-c Q '''';

dcl-s Cmd VarChar(1000);

Cmd = 'Select ' + Q + 'Bob' + Q + From FileX Where Field1 = ' + Q + X + Q';

This accomplishes the same thing in one step, with no overhead at run-time for the "scanrpl" operation.

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