On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:00:19 -0500, RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To me, \= is not "not equal" at all; This conversation was the first t
ime
>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
The problem is that NOT is also used by itself, in additon to in ^=. <>
does not help you there. I suppose you could create a "not" subroutine.
and code not(new) instead of ^new.
not: procedure
return \arg(1)
The recommendation to use \ comes from a recent book on REXX which covers
multiple different implementations of REXX. Actually, I do use <>, since
I
learned it while coding SAS.
CMS Pipelines PICK stage uses ^= or ^==, but also accepts /=, \=
. /==, \==.
P.S. I am typing caret ^ (above the 6) on my keyboard here, and that is
also what I see on my terminal emulator. I don't know what your are going
to see.
Alan Ackerman
Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com
