"IBM Mainframe Assembler List" <[email protected]> wrote on
11/22/2023 12:15:30 PM:
> We call those built-in functions.
>
> To remove quotes at start and end, it's DEQUOTE.
> To un-double embedded quotes and ampersands, use DCVAL.
> To double them back again, say for an MNOTE insert, use DOUBLE.
>
> The character built-in functions cannot be nested, so to apply
> more than one to the same text you need more than one SETC.
>
> If you want to use character built-in functions and string
> concatenation in the same character expression you may need
> the fix for APAR PH57717 (very recent) to get correct results.
All very good information. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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