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buechler66
Barite | Level 11

Hi. I have a Put statement where I'm attempting to output a mix of strings and variable values. The value for Analysis_Desc, which is ACTUAL DELIVERY DATE MISSING IN IV, needs to be output in quotes, but I can't seem to get the syntax to output the value in quotes.

 

PUT "WHEN (" RULE ") AND a.RULE = . THEN " ANALYSIS_DESC;

I'd expect the Put output statement to look like this:

 

WHEN (A.ACTUAL_DLVRY_DATE IS NULL AND B.ACTUAL_DLVRY_DATE IS NOT NULL ) AND a.RULE = . THEN
"ACTUAL DELIVERY DATE MISSING IN IV"

 

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15
PUT 'WHEN (' RULE ') AND a.RULE = . THEN "' ANALYSIS_DESC '"';

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Haikuo
Onyx | Level 15
PUT 'WHEN (' RULE ') AND a.RULE = . THEN "' ANALYSIS_DESC '"';
ballardw
Super User

Another approach :

 

str = cats"When (",Rule,") and a.rule= . then ",quote(ANALYSIS_DESC));

put str;

 

 

data_null__
Jade | Level 19

When using PUT statements you can also use FORMATS like $QUOTE.

 

PUT "WHEN (" RULE ") AND a.RULE = . THEN " ANALYSIS_DESC :$quote128.;

 

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