Re: %XLATE where lengths are different

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2020-03-03 2:18 a.m., Booth Martin wrote:
> %scanrpl  ??  OK.   I am not seeing a difference between %xlate and 
> %scanRpl, except maybe its the length issue?

Indeed, it's the length issue.

With %XLATE, it's a one-to-one character substitution. It's impossible 
to use %XLATE to change say '!' to '%21'.

With %SCANRPL, you can replace a character string with another character 
string, where the second string possibly has a different length, (even a 
zero length).