On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:16:14 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, at 15:05, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>> Yup.  Pet peeve: ISPF Edit has no way of escaping apostrophe, which otheer
>> IBM languages
>
>But "ispf edit" isn't a language.  What do you mean?
>
It's repeatedly disputed in this forum whether JCL is a language.  Yet JCL has 
a convention
for escaping the apostrophe: ...,PARM='"Hello," says O''Reilly.'

ISPF, like JCL, is a user interface supporting delimited strings in commands,  
but reports
an error for:
    CHANGE PARM '"Hello," says O''Reilly.'

I've been told the alternative is a hexadecimal string.  AYFK!

-- 
gil

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