That makes so much sense. Who wooda thunk? Thanks to all that responded. Ray Baraniecki Morgan Stanley Smith Barney 18th Floor 1 New York Plaza New York, NY 10004 Office - 212-276-5641 Cell - 917-597-5692 [email protected] BE CARBON CONSCIOUS. PLEASE CONSIDER OUR ENVIRONMENT BEFORE PRINTING THIS E-MAIL.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Clist Quest > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Baraniecki, Ray > Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 8:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Clist Quest > > I ran across the following IF statement in a Clist that I am > working on. The statement itself is understandable, it's the > period usage that I don't understand. Can anyone shed some > light on this? > > IF .&ITEMS < .5 THEN DO > > > Thanks, > > > Ray Baraniecki suppose the line were: IF &ITEMS < 5 THEN DO What if &ITEMS is null ('')? Without the periods, the CLIST intepreter would see the line: IF < 5 THEN DO which it could not handle (syntax error). So the periods are there just to make the line syntactically correct in the case where &ITEMS is null. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notice to Recipients: It is important that you do not use e-mail to request, authorize or effect the purchase or sale of any security or commodity, to send fund transfer instructions, or to effect any other transactions. Any such request, orders, or instructions that you send will not be accepted and will not be processed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. The Global Wealth Management Group of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated and the Smith Barney division of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. have combined into Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC, a new investment adviser and broker-dealer registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The sender of this email is an employee of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Important disclosures on Morgan Stanley and Citi Investment Research & Analysis research reports may relate in part to the separate businesses of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Morgan Stanley that now form Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. To view these important research disclosures, go to http://www.morganstanley.com/researchdisclosures and https://www.citigroupgeo.com/geopublic/Disclosures/index_a.html. If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error. We may monitor and store emails to the extent permitted by applicable law. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
