In an INPUT,
DISPLAY,
WRITE,
WRITE TITLE or
WRITE TRAILER
statement, you can use text notation to define a text to be used in conjunction
with such a statement.
This document covers the following topics:
Defining a Text to Be Used with a Statement - the 'text' Notation
Defining a Character to Be Displayed n Times before a Field Value - the 'c'(n) Notation
The text to be used with the statement (for example, a prompting message) must be enclosed in either apostrophes (') or quotation marks ("). Do not confuse double apostrophes ('') with a quotation mark (").
Text enclosed in quotation marks can be converted automatically from lower-case letters to upper case. To switch off automatic conversion, change the settings in the editor profile.
The text itself may be 1 to 72 characters and must not be continued from one line to the next.
Text elements may be concatenated by using a hyphen.
DEFINE DATA LOCAL 1 #A(A10) END-DEFINE INPUT 'Input XYZ' (CD=BL) #A WRITE '=' #A WRITE 'Write1 ' - 'Write2 ' - 'Write3' (CD=RE) END
The following applies, if Natural profile
parameter TQMARK
(Translate Quotation Marks) is set to ON. This is the default
setting.
If you want an apostrophe to be part of a text string that is enclosed in apostrophes, you must write this as double apostrophes ('') or as a quotation mark ("). Either notation will be output as a single apostrophe.
If you want an apostrophe to be part of a text string that is enclosed in quotation marks, you write this as a single apostrophe.
#FIELDA = 'O''CONNOR' #FIELDA = 'O"CONNOR' #FIELDA = "O'CONNOR"
In all three cases, the result will be:
O'CONNOR
The following applies, if the Natural profile parameter
TQ (Translate
Quotation Marks) is set
to OFF. The default setting is
TQ=ON.
If you want a quotation mark to be part of a text string that is enclosed in single apostrophes, write a quotation mark.
If you want a quotation mark to be part of a text string that is enclosed in quotation marks, write double quotation marks ("").
#FIELDA = 'O"CONNOR' #FIELDA = "O""CONNOR"
In both cases, the result will be:
O"CONNOR
If a single character is to be output several times as text, you use the following notation:
'c'(n)
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As c you specify the character, and as
n the number of times the character is to be
generated. The maximum value for n is
249.
WRITE '*'(3)
Instead of apostrophes before and after the character
c you can also use quotation marks.
