Re: Help with long URL from RPG

["Michael Naughton" <michael_naughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not Scott, but I took a quick look at his article, and it looks like the number of carets has nothing to do with the number of parms -- instead, it is determined by the number of times the & has to be "interpreted" by the bat file. If once, you use
one caret (^&); if twice, you theoretically need two carets, but since the second caret has to get past the first "interpretation", you really need three carets (^^^& will be interpreted to ^&); if three times, you'll need four more, or seven carets
(^^^^^^^& -> ^^^& -> ^&). if you need n carets for a given number of interpretations, you'll need to add n+1 if you add one more interpretation (one each for the carets you want to be preserved after the first interpretation, plus one for the original
ampersand).

At least, that's how I read it. HTH - good luck!

Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Mike 
> Thanks for the response.  I'm not really sure that this is an option at
> this point.  We do have zend installed on our development machine, but
> not on our production machine.  We have not done a whole lot with zend
> and php, so I'm not sure we will go down that road right now(though I'm
> getting more apt to try by the minute)
>
> I did come across this thread
> http://forums.systeminetwork.com/isnetforums/showthread.php?t=45747
> Scott K. talks about using carets to get by the problem with the & in
> the dos batch file.  
> I copied what he used and it works, however I have an extra parm(you
> wouldn't think it would be this difficult to figure out) and can't
> figure out the proper use of the ^ for all parms.  .  
>
> Scott, if you see this, could you explain how to determine the number of
> ^ for each parm.  Or point me somewhere I can read about this.  It seems
> simple, I'm just not hitting the correct combination.  
>
> Thanks 
>
> Mike 


Mike Naughton
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