tomc@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Cunningham) (09/06/86)
Any of you VMS folks know a clever way to cleanly quote a single quote
on the DCL command line? I have an application written in VAX C that
does its own command line parsing via argc/argv. One type of argument
needs to be triple quoted thusly: '''argval'''. In other words, all
six single quotes, along with argval, need to get passed in to the
application. I realize the single quote is some kind of whizbang
metacharacter in DCL, but I have really had to jump through hoops to
make this work. Any suggestions?
Also, does anyone know of a tar, PD or otherwise, that works with VMS?
Many thanks to those of you who responded to my query about software
distribution!
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Phone: 512-440-2953toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) (09/09/86)
In article <759@oakhill.UUCP>, tomc@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Cunningham) writes: > Any of you VMS folks know a clever way to cleanly quote a single quote > on the DCL command line? I have an application written in VAX C that > does its own command line parsing via argc/argv. One type of argument > needs to be triple quoted thusly: '''argval'''. In other words, all > six single quotes, along with argval, need to get passed in to the > application. I realize the single quote is some kind of whizbang > metacharacter in DCL, but I have really had to jump through hoops to > make this work. Any suggestions? I have had problems much like this in the past and never found any real solutions, the quote ' and " are special characters to DCL and never passed as arguments without haveing to to type a long command line like "'"+"'"+"'"+"argval"+"'"+"'"+"'" to achieve this purpose, I think you will run into a dead end trying to figure a way around this. My solutions in the past have been to us the back quote, `. and change that to the regular quote in my pgm. I really don't think there is any other viable solution unless you to a gets() from within your program These strings like '''argval''' can be passed at that level... Good luck, and I would really be interested in any solution that you may or may not come up with Tom --- UUCP: ihnp4\ \killer!toma / drillsys!infoswx!convex!dj3b1/ Tom Armistead