Peter, Same here haven't seen this strangeness in rexx "the wonder horse"...usung rexx since 1984.
Scott On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:50 AM Peter Hunkeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >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 > > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
