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| zuresh2zuresh |
 Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject: To add special charcters and keywords as tag value in ESQL |
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My desired output for a tag in the outbound XML.
<TagA>'Reporting Contact First Name, Contact Surname or Contact Phone Number'</TagA>
By trial and error method and based on logical assumptions, I achieved the output with the below mentioned code. Can any one of you give a technical explanation on how it works?
Declare a CHARACTER '''Reporting Contact First Name, Contact Surname or Contact Phone Number''';
Then followed by usual SET statement.
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| MQEnthu |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| zuresh2zuresh wrote: |
My desired output for a tag in the outbound XML.
<TagA>'Reporting Contact First Name, Contact Surname or Contact Phone Number'</TagA>
By trial and error method and based on logical assumptions, I achieved the output with the below mentioned code. Can any one of you give a technical explanation on how it works?
Declare a CHARACTER '''Reporting Contact First Name, Contact Surname or Contact Phone Number''';
Then followed by usual SET statement. |
What strange thing you have noticed here  ... you have to use an additional ' if you want a single quote in your character literal..
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wmbhelp/v6r1m0/topic/com.ibm.etools.mft.doc/ak17830_.htm 
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| MQEnthu |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:11 am Post subject: |
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And please get this moved to correct section...
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| zuresh2zuresh |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:09 am Post subject: |
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But I've used three codes (').... I am not able to get the output with two codes
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:20 am Post subject: |
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Moved to correct section
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| mgk |
| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 2:55 am Post subject: |
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Three ' is correct.
A CHARACTER literal is delimited by ' so the outer pair are for the literal string.
Then to use a literal ' inside a string literal it needs to be escaped by another ', so you end up with three ' in your case. If the literal ' was somewhere inside the string (not at the ends) then it would look easier to read for example :
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| DECLARE x CHAR 'can''t you feel the music?'; |
This is documented in topic: ak17830
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