On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 13:55:22 -0600, Steve Estle <sest...@gmail.com> wrote: >I've hardcoded the enclosing double quote/quote inside my file as follows: >"'SYS1.PARMLIB'"
That's the problem. When your exec that works correctly does this: > DSName = "'SYS1.PARMLIB'" the double quotes are part of the REXX syntax to indicate that what's between is a literal string, and only the single quotes are part of the value of that string. When that exec then does: > Say DSName you'll see in the output just the single quotes: 'SYS1.PARMLIB' When your failing exec does: > Say dsn you'll instead see both sets of quotes, because they're both part of the data you read from the input file: "'SYS1.PARMLIB'" So don't put the double quotes in your input file, because they're not part of your data. ¬R ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
