Aha! Great explanation. Thank you so much > On 19 Mar 2020, at 11:25 pm, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > In REXX substitution is automatic and literal strings require quoting to > avoid being treated as uninitialized variables; the equivalent of foo &bar > baz is 'foo' bar 'baz'. There in no equivalent to &SYSNSUB, nor is there a > need for it, since REXX doesn't use a substituition sigil like &. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:45 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Does anybody remember CLIST? > > Thanks, I did see that link! I will work it out but looking for a fast > start. > > I've got stuff like this! > > SRCLINE = &SYSNSUB(2,&SRCLINE) > >> On 2020-03-19 10:40 PM, John McKown wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:20 AM David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to convert CLIIST to REXX and CLIST has symbolic >>> substitution. I've used this before in NCL but it's a long time ago. >>> >>> Can anybody tell me what this does and translate to REXX? I'm guessing I >>> need to use interpret or value()! >>> >>> SET VARNX = &&VARN&GLCV >>> IF (&VARNX = &SYMBOL) THEN DO >>> SET VARFND = 1 >>> SET VARVX = &&VARV&GLCV >>> SET SYMBOL = &STR(&VARVX) >>> END >>> >>> >> This might help: >> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ikjb800/ikjb80059.htm >> >> I _think_ the following is correct, but I am not sure. >> >> VARNX=VARN||GLCV /* CREATE NAME OF VARIABLE */ >> IF (VATNX=SYMBOL) THEN DO; /* IF NAME OF VARIABLE IS THE SYMBOL WE ARE >> LOOKING FOR */ >> VARFND=1 /* WE'VE FOUND THE SYMBOL */ >> VARVX=VARV||GLCV /* CREATE THE NAME OF THE VARIABLE WHOSE VALUE WE >> WANT */ >> SYMBOL=VALUE(VARVX) /* GET VALUE OF VARIABLE WHOSE NAME IS IN VARVX */ >> END >> >> The comments are strictly my own. >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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