If he uses PULL ANSWER to get the response, I believe he will always get upper 
case responses.
PULL does PARSE UPPER...

-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gentry, 
Stephen
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 11:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: REXX coding question.



Is the user entering the response in upper or lower case?  You may need to use 
the translate function to get it to upper case.  And you may want to use <> for 
not equal vs. what you've coded.  The not sign doesn't always translate well 
when going from ebcidic to ascii (depends on code page being used, etc.).

Steve




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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
Howard Rifkind
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 12:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: REXX coding question.



This is confusing me.



The response to the variable 'answer' is a Y.



Yet this portion of the code isn't working.  Shouldn't the logic just fall thru 
because the response was a Y.



IF SUBSTR(ANSWER,1,1) /= 'Y' | ANSWER /= 'YES' THEN
   DO
     SAY ANSWER
     SAY 'THE WRONG RESPONSE HAS BEEN ENTERED'
     SAY
     SAY 'PROCEDURE IS TERMINATING, PLEASE TRY AGAIN'
     EXIT
   END



Thanks





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