On Mar 16,  8:36am, David Woodroffe wrote:
> Can someone advise me on how to use HP functions such as LEN, RTRIM and EDIT
> when the input string contains a mix of single and double quotes. Input
> strings are being read from a file.

psuedo code:

   while not eof do
      input _var
      # _var contain both quote characters (' and ")
      calc len(_var)
      echo LEN of _var = ![len(_var)]
      setvar foo rtrim(_var)
      setvar quote '"'
      setvar quote2 '""'
      run pgm;info="!_var"         # doesn't work!!!!!!!!!
      run pgm;info="![repl(_var,quote,quote2)]"
   endwhile

Jeff Vance, CSY

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