IBM Mainframe Forum

Hello All,

I have a query.

I have a variable declared as:

W_A DC CL5'ABC'

How can i print this variable as using assembler prog:

'ABC' (with quotes) instead of ABC.

I am confused how can i insert the symbol (hex code 27).

please guide me.

Your first, and probably biggest problem, is that mainframes use EBCDIC, not ASCII. The quote mark is X'7D', NOT X'27', in EBCDIC.

Try this:since pairs of quote (tic) marks are replaced by single ones inside quote (tic) marks.

hello robert,

i used as :




and getting error.

Try with three, as Robert has indicated. You need '' to get your one, and one more to have it bounded by the quotes/ticks.

Notice the error message indicates what I told you -- there is an opening quote (tic) mark, then you need two to become a single one; since you only put one the error message shows a single tic followed by the rest of your text.

Billyboyo and Mr. Sample are correct. I've been doing Assembler for more than 40 years, and I still have to think about it! CLI X,C'''' for example. C' starts the character constant, '' creates a single quote, and then ' to terminate the character constant. It woulld be clearer if I used code tags: