On 21 February 2012 15:13, David Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
> The "not in a string" part is tricky with the HLASM language. An apostrophe > does not start a string if it is part of an attribute reference (e.g. L'), > nor if it is in the remarks field. Indeed. Someone should tell the ISPF folks... Am I muddled, or did that (highlighting in edit/view) once work correctly for L' and such? > Why not simply replace all tabs with blanks? Anyone foolish enough to use > tab characters in strings gets what they deserve if they ever transfer the > source. Some of the people playing with MVS 3.8 source code discovered that IDCAMS has a number of character constants containing non character (low) values. To say nothing of the REPRO statements in standalone utilities. Tony H.
