I don't see where Gil said that. The code you posted contains an expression containing two string literals, each on a single line.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 12:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Coding for the future Wait, now I'm confused. (Well, more confused.) "A string literal split across multiple lines of the source code" -- that's what Gil said he ~didn't~ mean: longstr='blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah', 'blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah' --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* We imply, and often believe, that habitual vices are exceptional single acts, and make the opposite mistake about our virtues - like the bad tennis player who calls his normal form his "bad days" and mistakes his rare successes for his normal. -C S Lewis, _The Problem of Pain_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 00:08 No, by multi-line string I mean a string literal split across multiple lines of the source code, whether or not it contains CR, LF or NEL. In, e.g., HLASM you can split a string across multiple lines, although the syntax is ugly. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 7:43 PM Ah, I see; by "multi-line string" you mean, I guess, a string with something like an ASCII CRLF embedded in it. But isn't that a limitation not of REXX but of EBCDIC? Or have I still misunderstood you? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 16:50 No, that's a single-linee string. Verify that with: SAY Longstr --- On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:39:19 -0400, Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: >Gil, I don't follow what you mean about multi-line strings. I know you can't mean this, which REXX handles just fine: > > longstr='blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah', > 'blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
