The quotes were OK, the space between translate and the left paren was not.
Fixing that
parm="INDSN('HLQ.DSNAME(MEMBER)')"
Parse Value Translate(parm,"","'")' ' With fill1 '(' val ') ' fill2;say
'fill1='fill1 'val='val 'fill2='fill2
gives me
fill1=INDSN val= HLQ.DSNAME(MEMBER fill2=)
Not only did it lose the RP, it also stripped off the apostrophes indicating
that it was a FQDSN.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder
On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:07:37 +0800, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>OK. Let me change the requirements again ;) How about also handling
>single quotes for a fully qualified data set.
>
>Simple to do with a regex. Not so simple using REXX.
>
>Syntax:
>
> INDSN(DSNAME(MEMBER))
> INDSN(DSNAME)
> INDSN('HLQ.DSNAME(MEMBER)')
> INDSN('HLQ.DSNAME')
Here is your one line REXX solution:
Parse Value Translate (parm,"","'")' ' With . '(' val ') ' .
Hopefully the single and double quotes come thru correctly.
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Dale R. Smith
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