[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-01-25 kl. 11:36, skrev Henry Crun:
> On 25/01/2022 11:35, gah4 wrote:
>> On Friday, January 21, 2022 at 4:51:45 AM UTC-8, VAXman- wrote:
>>
>> (snip, I wrote)
>>
>>>> The one I remember is that quoting on the DCL command line is
>>>> different from quoting in COM file of DCL commands.
>>>> Seems to be that it should be consistent between them.
>>> Short of where DCL reads its input (terminal or file via an RMS $GET), I 
>>> don't
>>> see why/where processing should be any different.
>>
>> As I remember it, there are some places where you need triple quotes,
>> in place of regular quotes.   I believe it is related to symbols and 
>> logical names.
>>
> 
> IIRC if a DCL command file bulds and writes a (sub-)command file that 
> handles symbols, there is use for more than three double-quotes. (do I 
> remember groups of six?)
> 

Sure, if you need them. No problem to find examples. This is from the
Oracle Rdb "Bugcheck dump summarizer":


$      if error_area_name .nes. ""
$       then
$        call get_more_details -
               """Storage area """"''error_area_name'""""""/exact" 0 8
$       endif