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QUESTION POSED ON: 24 February 2004
I'm trying to write a very small CL program to send my workstation a break message -- with the output being the text I would use for a SAV command. The problem is that in the SAV command some PARMs need to have the apostrophe included, i.e. '/QSYS.LIB/TAP01.DEVD'. How do I put the apostrophe into a CHAR variable without the program thinking that it is the end of the string?

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You will need to put double-single quotes around your quotes.

Example:

DCL VAR(&TEST) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(5)
CHGVAR VAR(&TEST) VALUE('''abc''')

This will produce a quoted value in the variable test 'abc'

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