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

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