On 6/9/24 17:05, Charles Mills wrote:
I am not a huge macro language expert but I suspect that the macro operand in question is not a "quoted character string" in HLASM-speak but rather an operand that happens to be a string of characters that happens to begin and end with a quote. .
I don't understand. Can you supply examples of each??
Are there BIFs to convert a string that happens to begin and end with a quote into a "quoted character string"? .
Even worse, SETC arguments are simplified by removing surrounding quotes and collapsing internal paired quotes and ampersands; not so for actual parameters to macros. Rexx and POSIX shell got it right; JCL and Assembler got it wrong. Conway's Law. -- gil
