Nowhere in that thread do I see *Gil* saying what Gil means.
-- 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 4:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Coding for the future I must be going crazy. Let's review: Gil> I wish Rexx supported multi-line strings. Bri> I know you don't mean this: longstr='blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah', 'blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah' Gil> <Agrees he doesn't mean that> Met> ...by multi-line string I mean a string literal split across multiple lines of the source code... So you mean what Gil says he did not mean...right? Or what else does Gil mean by "multi-line string"? --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Cooking tip: If you cook your kale with a little coconut oil, it makes it easier to scrape it into the garbage. -YS @NYinLS2121 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 15:06 I don't see where Gil said that. The code you posted contains an expression containing two string literals, each on a single line. ________________________________________ From: Bob Bridges [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 12:08 PM 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' -----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 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
