bet@ecsvax.UUCP (06/01/84)
I am new to dBase II, and have run into a problem. I am creating an application
which at one point needs to write out a batch job to run on an IBM mainframe
(I realize this is extremely bizzare; there are extenuating circumstances)
and I need to write lines of SAS code, each of which needs to end with a
semicolon. dBase refuses to write lines ending with semicolons. I am using
"set alternate"; I tried ? " ... ;" and the semicolon got dropped. OK I said;
and tried ? " ...",chr(59) and STILL the semicolon (chr(59)) got dropped.
TEXT
...;
ENDTEXT
was even worse; dBase recognized and implemented the concatenation. IS THERE
NO WAY TO QUOTE A SEMICOLON?????
Bennett Todd
...{decvax,ihnp4,akgua}!mcnc!ecsvax!bet