Re: How many quotes does it need to work?

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's that building up of a string with quote unquote + Quote Unquote that I
want to avoid. Drives me crazy.

I would doubt the overhead could even be measured accurately.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 8:02 AM Mark Waterbury <
mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Oops, typo ... should be:
> Cmd = 'Select ' + Q + 'Bob' + Q + From FileX Where Field1 = ' + Q + X + Q
> + '''';
>
>     On Thursday, February 18, 2021, 10:59:49 AM EST, Mark Waterbury <
> mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   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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