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Continuing a literal string without adding a space z/OS TSO/E REXX User's Guide SA32-0982-00 |
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If you need to continue an instruction to a second or more lines
but do not want REXX to add spaces when the line appears on the screen,
use the concatenation operand (two single OR bars, ||).
This example appears on the screen as one line without adding a
space within the word "broken".
Also note that the following two instructions are identical and
yield the same result when displayed on the screen:
is functionally identical to:
These examples appear on the screen as:
In the first example, the concatenation operator at the end of line 1 causes the deletion of any spaces when the two lines are concatenated for display. In the second example, the concatenation operator also concatenates the two strings without space when the line is displayed. |
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