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[pvrajesh31]

Hi ,
I want to concatenate strings and variables using CLIST. REXX is not available in our system. I have following strings and variables

string1 = abc.source(
variable1 = myprog
string2 = )

I want to concatenate all these and form a string
'abc.source(myprog)' .

When i tried to concatenate using below statement

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

if I remember correctly "operators out of sequence" always came up when I had math symbols -+.)( etc... in the string. I can not remember how to make a string x type in clists but maybe there is a STR(&string1&variable1&string2) function? also, I always used the concatenation symbol || instead, which enabled easier reading.

SET X = &string1 || &variable1 || &string2

if I need a space then " "
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[kolusu]

pvrajesh31,

try this

[pvrajesh31]

Hi Kolusu,
Sorry . Even now i am getting the same error.

Regards,
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Rajesh

[pvrajesh31]

Hi Dick,
Sorry. If i use pipe symbol || , even pipe symbol also is coming in the output.

The output as

OUTDS as ABC.SOURCE || MYPROG || )
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Rajesh

[superk]

This worked for me:

SET OUTDS = &STR(&STRING1&VARIABLE1&STRING2)

[pvrajesh31]

Hi Superk,
This is close to the solution.

The only problem is to form string1, i used command

SET string1 = abc.source(

This itself is giving error as 'THIS STATEMENT HAS AN EXPRESSION WITH OPERATORS OUT OF SEQUENCE'.
If i remove the brace '(' then it is working.

I tried to do in someother way by splitting the variables as below

SET string1 = abc.source
SET string2 = (
SET string3 = )

When i use the command
SET OUTDS = &STR(&string1&string2&variable1&string3)

it went on without error but the output is

OUTDS as abc.sourcemyprog) where left brace is missing. There is some problem with left brace symbol.

i need to get OUTDS as abc.source(myprog)
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Rajesh

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

try puting the braces in quotes within the &STR function

SET OUTDS = &STR(&STRING1"("&VARIABLE1")")

where &STRING1 contains the DSN
and &VARIABLE1 contains the member name
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[pvrajesh31]

Hi Dick,
I tried this,
output is abc.source"("myprog")".

But thanks for ur idea. I did a small change in your code. I removed quotes then it worked fine.

I changed it as below

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

thk for the feedback. obviously, my clist skills are rusty. hope i never have to write a clist again. yeah rexx.
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Dick Brenholtz
American living in Varel, Germany

[semigeezer]

What do you mean that Rexx is not available? If you are running OS/390 or z/OS then Rexx is available. Are you just not allowed to use it? And if not, then this question is exactly the reason that Rexx should be used for all new development and CLIST should be banned... forever (and erased from the history books, from our memories, and from the collective consciousness). String processing in CLIST is horribly error prone. And while you can use &STR() and SYSSCAN all you want to, there are always ways that your imput data can cause problems. Try Rexx. Argue for it, and fight, fight, fight. It is time to get your shop out of the 1970's.

[advoss]

This works for me