On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:47:07 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>What was your motivation for using a symbol rather than an explicit blank? >(I could imagine a history of desperate failed experiments.) I don't recall exactly. Like every other job <g> it was cobbled together from bits and pieces of previous jobs. It may have no relevance to this particular situation; it just came over that way from an earlier job. I can hypothesize the following // SET B = ' ' // SET G='GIL' or some other value depending on earlier decisions // SET FOO=XXX&B&G will set &FOO to "XXX GIL" (I think. I am no expert.) // SET FOO=XXX YYY will not, nor will // SET FOO='XXX &G' -- that's where this thread started out. &B with a value of blank is a decent solution to this conundrum. Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
