Considerations for passing quotation marks

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Considerations for passing quotation marks

z/OS TSO/E Command Reference
SA32-0975-00

Considerations for specifying parameters that contain single quotation marks (apostrophes):

implicit invocation - specify the exact string.
explicit invocation - specify two apostrophes for each apostrophe within the string. For example, to pass the string "It's" specify:
```
It''s
```
To pass the three-parameter string "It's 2 o'clock" specify:
```
It''s 2 o''clock
```

Considerations for specifying parameters that are quoted strings:

implicit invocation:
- p_value - specify the exact string. For example, to pass the fully-qualified data set name 'USER33.MASTER.BACKUP' specify:
```
'user33.master.backup'
```
- k_word('k_value') - to pass the same fully-qualified data set name as shown in the previous example as a k_value, specify:
```
dsn('''user33.master.backup''')
```
explicit invocation:
- p_value - specify two quotation marks for each enclosing quote. For example, to pass the fully-qualified data set name 'USER33.MASTER.BACKUP' specify:
```
'''user33.master.backup'''
```
  The outermost set of quotation marks is required as part of the syntax.
- k_word('k_value') - to pass the same fully-qualified data set name as shown in the previous example as a k_value, specify
```
'dsn(''''''user33.master.backup'''''')'
```
  The number of enclosing quotation marks must be doubled because the entire specification is itself a quoted string.

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