Ah, I see; by "multi-line string" you mean, I guess, a string with something 
like an ASCII CRLF embedded in it.  But isn't that a limitation not of REXX but 
of EBCDIC?  Or have I still misunderstood you?

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Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313

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-----Original Message-----
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Paul Gilmartin
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No, that's a single-linee string.  Verify that with:
    SAY Longstr

--- On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 18:39:19 -0400, Bob Bridges <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>Gil, I don't follow what you mean about multi-line strings.  I know you can't 
>mean this, which REXX handles just fine:
>
>  Longstr='blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah',
>     'blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah'

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