I got into the habit of using Q = '7D'X in my REXX prologue. I would use Q as the Quote in expressions and avoid all the internal confusion of what is a quoted double quote.
Nasty but worked for me... On Sun, Jun 16, 2024 at 1:10 PM Paul Gilmartin < 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > 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 > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
