Re: Some REXX help

[Alan Ackerman]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:06:48 -0700, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
e:

>Ah, but the semicolon makes it two Rexx statements. The same as
>
>If rest&notsym;
>='' then call ...
>
>Your syntax will be better if you remove the ;
>
>Regards, 
>Richard Schuh 

Standard HTML entities like &gt; and &lt; start with an & (am
persand) and end with a ; (semicolon). 
The whole string &notsym; was supposed to be a NOT SIGN. True, if you
 typed that into REXX, it 
would think the ; was a statement separator. But you don't want to remove
 the semicolon, you 
want to map &notsym; to / (slash) or \ (backslash) or not-sign. REXX 
does not require a not-sign 
-- I recommend using backslash.

Alan Ackerman
Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com