How to use panels to store in a file

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

I am giving some data as input thru panel which is having(ex: the data i am giving as input is sfjdg&gfnhv--hjy) & along with other characters and i am storing it in a file but the characters after & are not getting stored...

any solution????

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

this is in clist as because the clist variables are defined with a prefix &

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 7:33 pm

I know that this is not the answer to Your problem but ....
it is many years that CLISTS are less and less used

did You ever consider switching to REXX?
it does not have all the idiosyncrasies of CLIST language
and provides a richer set of constructs

regards

e.s

kavikesav · New User Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 21 Location: chennai

ya i know i also worked in rexx and like rexx only but i am doing an enhancement in an already developed clist program so i cannot change it to rexx as we are running out of time...

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:27 am

Try with double "&".

O.

Douglas Wilder · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 2:51 am

Would &SYSNSUB help? This controls how may times symbolic substitution is performed.

Douglas Wilder · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:07 am

The one I ment was &SYSSCAN, This controls how may times symbolic substitution is performed.