Two ampersands represent one ampersand in and only in a single-quote framed string.
Thus |// SET text= 'Dombey && Son' sets &text equal to >Dombey & Son<, where '>' and '<' delimit but are not of course part of the value of &text here. The use of SET statements can make some but not all of these problems tractable, and I suspect that strengthening the concatenation machinery available for SET statements would solve most such problems. The designers of the SET statement would indeed have done better to just add the HLASM SETC statement to JCL. Their independent design is less than felicitous. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
