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Rules for concatenation HLASM Language Reference SC26-4940-06 |
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If a symbolic parameter in a model statement is immediately preceded or followed by other characters or another symbolic parameter, the characters that correspond to the symbolic parameter are combined in the generated statement with the other characters, or with the characters that correspond to the other symbolic parameter. This process is called concatenation. When variable symbols are concatenated to ordinary character strings,
the following rules apply to the use of the concatenation character
(a period). The concatenation character is mandatory when:
The concatenation character is not required when:
Table 1 gives the rules for concatenating variable symbols to ordinary character strings. The highlighted numbers correspond to the numbers in the mandatory and not required lists.
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