Patrick Santucci wrote:

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> It never ceases to amaze me how much I learn from the people on
> this list.

Me too!

> Where is this documented? (Other than this email, I mean! :-P)

That would be in Appendix B of the "MPE/iX Commands Reference
Manual" (specifically in Table B-1.  Expression Evaluator Functions)

> And how long has it been available? (See, I'm not using "it
> works" but "I've been ignorant," a *much better* excuse [not!].)

Release 4.0?  4.5?  I know it was in 5.0!

> I've been hard-coding escape characters in command files since I
> started working with Reflection, somewhere in the early-to-mid
> 80's when I worked on a system 48.

Yeah, me too.  I really liked discovering these functions! (I think
I read about them in one of the communicator articles)

Cheers!

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