At 16:17 -0800 on 01/10/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Mainframe
"culture" question - how display a tab charac:
Just to reiterate before this thread drifts away:
Classic MVS, not z/UNIX, and this is not a delimiter in a parameter file,
this is for a display (note the subject line). How do you signify a tab
character inside a displayed otherwise alphanumeric value?
I was wondering if anyone would point out that the original request
was for how to indicate in a display of the parm that it contains a
tab - IOW: What glyph or string to use. The thread has drifted to the
question of what to use as the tab in the actual parm (the answer
being x"05" the EBCDIC tab character). You can also use a character
in the display that is not a valid character which can appear in the
parm (ie: Something other than A-Z, a-z, and 0-9 such as the slash
"/", back-slash "\", or greater-than symbol ">" [which has the
advantage of indicating the move to the right result of the tab]) or
the suggested <tab> string.
I suppose that begs the question "how then *will* the user *specify* a tab?"
and that is indeed a good question that I have not yet answered. At this
point, the only way that this parameter becomes a tab is through a "meta"
parameter that will set a bunch of other options. The customer will specify
PARMX(SET1) and that will imply
Parm1=This
Parm2=That
Parm3=Foo<tab>Bar
I am going to have to solve the specify problem at some point.
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