At 12:59 PM 09/11/2005, Dave Salt wrote:
Steve,
The ^ character should really be a ¬ character; i.e. the character you
would see if you hold down the ALT key and type 170 on the numeric keypad.
Somehow, the character was translated incorrectly when you downloaded the
program. So what you see as:
if zedlmsg^="" then
Should really be:
if zedlmsg¬"" then
Where ¬= means 'not equal'. Simply removing the character is NOT advisable
as this changes the instruction from 'not equal' to 'equal', which is the
exact opposite of what you want!
I was thinking that the ^ symbol may have mean "not" but I couldn't find it
defined in any REXX manuals that I came across. Why removing, which indeed
changes the logic, made it work properly is beyond me as the routine is a
little long to debug at this point.
There are several ways to represent 'not equal' in REXX; e.g. you can use
\= or <>.
I shall use your suggestions.
Hope that helps,
It sure did and thanks to everyone who responded.
Dave Salt
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From: "Stephen M. Wiegand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: REXX Question
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:06:38 -0400
List,
I downloaded from
http://www.mainframeweek.com/journals/articles/0080/A+REXX+program+to+list+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.
Thanks.
Steve Wiegand
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