programming question...

[onamia28]

I'm trying to do a just a simple inventory program in rpg 4. Everything looks great except for the title when I print it out. It bunches my first two words together. When I try entering the entire name on the constant line and it doesnt allow me to add the ending apostrophe ('). Is there a way to extend that field?

 

[flapeyre]

You have to put the remainder on another line. An apostrophe within a quoted string must be represented by two apostrophes:

     OQSYSPRT   E            HEAD           1  1                                
     O                                           41 'This field''s description '
     O                                           68 'contains an apostrophe and'
     O                                           82 ' is very long.'

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[flapeyre]

I forgot to mention that the numbers 41, 68, and 82 are the ending columns for the strings. Note the space at the end of the first string is column 41; the word "description" ends in column 40.

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[onamia28]

Thank you so much...I never thought it would be just that easy!