> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Monday September 12 2005 06:09 > > > BTW, I use <> for "not equal" in my REXX code. This won't > work for something like "not greater" but I don't ever use > "not" except when needing not equal. Regardless of what you > use for NOT, OR (|) can still have translation issues.
Not greater is also less than or equal. (Original COBOL did not have <= or >= constructs defined, so NOT < or NOT > (or their more verbose counterparts) became the confusion of the day.) I recently had to change some QMF we distribute in a PDS because of issues with $ and (not) in other code pages. I've had my headaches with code tables and Unicode over the years, and I've inadvertently become the local expert on it. Combine that with ISO-3166 and ISO-639 and one's head begins to spin... Later, Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
