Bob, what I have noticed in some postings to this list over the years is that the not sign (bent bar, whatever) doesn't always translate to the correct character. I've noticed that usually the back slash "\" gets substituted in its place. Regards, Steve
- may your bit bucket never overflow - may your disk space be endless - may you always run full duplex a sysprog's blessing. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Some REXX help To me, \= is not "not equal" at all; This conversation was the first time I'd ever seen that notation. The not sign is specific, but doesn't exist on some character sets. The only consistent one would be <>, at least in my experience. -- Bob Nix On 10/21/08 10:56 AM, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe more readable to some but not to others. If you take the symbols > at face value, \=, not equal to, is more readable than <>, is less than > or greater than. I guess it depends on whether you first encountered the > notion in mathematics or programming. To me, the not equal too is more > natural. > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RPN01 >> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:48 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Some REXX help >> >> You can also make it a bit more readable, and less character >> set dependent, by replacing the \= with <>. >> >> -- >> Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. >> RO-OE-5-55 200 First Street SW /V\ >> 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ >> ----- ^^-^^ >> "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in >> practice, theory and practice are different." >> >> >> >> >> On 10/20/08 11:11 PM, "Alan Ackerman" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 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¬sym; >>>> ='' then call ... >>>> >>>> Your syntax will be better if you remove the ; >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Richard Schuh >>> >>> Standard HTML entities like > and < start with an & (am >>> persand) and end with a ; (semicolon). >>> The whole string ¬sym; 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 ¬sym; >>> 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 >>
