>Steve has it right. Literals take precedent. So it works like this:
Yep. This is it. Literals split the source into multiple sources, then PARSE applies "parsing into words" on the individual source parts. I'm just astonished I have never before stumbled across this in my 33+ years with a lot of REXX programming. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
