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