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[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-01-19 kl. 16:38, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2022-01-19 15:31:52 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
> 
>> In article <ss98fn$ahb$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
>> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> Ah, well. Phillip, you're on your own.
>>
>> A couple of people had already posted the proper answer:
> 
> That's what this does, but (mistakes aside) in one line.
> 
> But for some of us, the proper answer is probably closer to "don't use DCL".
> 
> DCL, FORTRAN, C, and some other common OpenVMS programming languages just 
> aren't very good at strings.
> 
> 

If you have a question about a spcific DCL syntax, why would
not a DCL example be the "proper answer".

Funny how it is someone else fault (or DCLs fault) when you
(once) happens to come up with a wrong answer.