Re: Getting a bit more specific, Re: Embedded apostrophe in command parameters

On 5/17/17, 10:01 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

James,

How did it know "path name"?

For a moment, I thought you were onto something, but no, that's simply the parameter type for FILES

The OS/400 port of ZLIB comes with complete source, and in the ZLIB/QCMDSRC.ZIP, the FILES parameter is defined thusly:

PARM KWD(FILES) TYPE(*PNAME) LEN(128) MIN(1) +
MAX(20) EXPR(*YES) CASE(*MIXED) +
PROMPT('Files to add ZIP file')

Now, if I triple the delimiter quotes and QUADRUPLE the embedded quotes, THEN the command processor processes it just fine, but the CPP blows up. And I'm not quite ready to rewrite ZLIB.

As Murphy's reformulation of the Laws of Thermodynamics put it:
You can't win. You can't break even. You can't even quit the game.

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JHHL