Concatenating the product of a function to a string

fridge · Post by **fridge** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:41 am

I am wanting to concatenate the product of the function Ebcdic(@) to a string.

I get the error 'No closing quote' which I assume is because I need to protect the value returned from the function with quotes. How would I do this?

Any help appreciated.

fridge · Post by **fridge** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:19 am

I have resolved it!

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:30 am

Yes? How? Please share. We do.

fridge · Post by **fridge** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 5:15 am

Apologies Ray - I simply hard coded the value I wanted to convert into a variable and then read the variable value into the function which worked.

Arg1 = "\"
Arg2 = EBCDIC(Arg1)
Ans = Arg2:"Doohhh"

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:30 am

I'm assuming you had tried

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Ans = EBCDIC(Arg1) : "Dohhh"

but what about

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Ans = EBCDIC((Arg1)) : " Doohh"

? The inner parenthese convert the reference to Arg1 into an expression containing a reference to Arg1, preventing side-effects.

(The missing/mismatched quote was probably on the "Doohh".)