Need to protect () chars returned from a cursor

[ixnay5]

Hi all...

I have a 4gl program which puts a value returned from a cursor in to an echo command string variable. When the string is "run", the value of "reg.home_phone" is supposed to be written into a text file. This code plays well other records, but there's a problem using it with this particular record. Here we go:

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let emailmessage6 = "echo ",reg.home_phone," >> /hr/addresschangetemp.txt"
run emailmessage6
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The problem is, the value returned in reg.home_phone is a phone number formatted like this: (909)555-9999. Looks like bash doesn't like the () chars because I get this error:

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bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token '(909)'
bash: -c: line 1: `echo (909)555-9999 ' >> /hr/addresschangetemp.txt
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How can I protect the () chars? Also, there's no guarantee () will appear in every reg.home_phone record.

Thanks!!!

ixnay5

 

[thorkild]

Try this

let emailmessage6 = "echo '",reg.home_phone,"' >> /hr/addresschangetemp.txt"

that is singel quotation mark around reg.home_phone so that the echo line looks like this

echo '(909)555-9999' >> /hr/addresschangetemp.txt

The single quotation mark indicates to the echo command the this is an argument

Thorkild

 

[ixnay5]

hey Thorkild...THANKS! Your suggestion worked!!

ixnay5