On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 22:28:11 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >Jeremy, you and I agree on a lot of things, but nah, this one isn't for me; >it's 'way too much like work. I'm much more likely to do it the other way: > > msg="You've misdefined '"xyz''' as "'xyz'".' > >It may take me a couple tries to get it right, but after that I'm never >going to look at it again so I don't feel the need to do all the extra >typing in order to make it obvious to the passing eye. > It can't be made obvious. It's irreducibly complex/x Aggravated by proportional fonts which make a quotation mark indistinguishable from a double apostrophe.
>--- >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeremy Nicoll >Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2024 05:37 > >Many of the literal strings in my Rexx programs are parts of error messages >etc and lots of those have single quotes in them, mostly as apostrophes ... >so I enclose these texts in double quotes. > >I tend therefore to use double quotes nearly all the time. > >When I do need to build strings with both in them I tend to do it via two >vars > > dq = '"' ; sq = "'" > >and end up with lines like > > msg = "You've misdefined" sq || "xyz" || sq "as" dq || xyz || dq || "." -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
