Steve, The ^ symbol is the negation sign. An alternative to this is using \.
Lance J. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen M. Wiegand Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: REXX Question List, I downloaded from http://www.mainframeweek.com/journals/articles/0080/A+REXX+program+to+li st+GDG+information a handy little REXX program. In the program were the following lines: if zedlmsg^="" then if left(j2g_data,4)//4^=0 |, if rc^=0 then In all cases, when I issue a TSO GDG filename, TSO complained about these statements. Since I didn't recognize what the ^ character was supposed to do, I deleted it from all 3 statements and the program ran fine and produced expected results. But just in case, does anyone know what the ^ is supposed to represent? My search in REXX documentation has been futile. Thank. Steve Wiegand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
