[Info-vax] Very simple DCL question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/3/2023 6:28 AM, cao... at pitbulluk.org wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 at 4:45:45 PM UTC, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> $ type z.com
>> $ write sys$output "''p1'"
>> $ @z a
>> A
>> $ @z "a"
>> a
>>
>> This is not really surprising.
>>
>> But are there any way to preserve pn case without
>> double-quoting it?
>>
>> Like this hypothetical syntax:
>>
>> $ set proc/parse=(extended,pnkeepcase)
> 
> Taking z.com, for really simple single-parameter stuff, we used to:
> 
> $ z == "@z """    (that's three double-quotes at the end)
> then
> $ z fff aaa bbb
> fff aaa bbb

That is pretty clever.

But I do get an extra space first in the value and
everything go in P1 despite any spaces.

Arne