I can't get the synatax right for adding an apostrophe in front of a string. I've tried the two scenarios below but get the same results for both

 
-SET &GRAD = 'COMPUTE GRAD/A6 = IF J7.SEG01.gradtermint NE MISSING THEN '|''|'gradtermint ELSE '|''|'EDIT(DEANHLD.SEG01.gradint);';


PRINT
     &GRAD
     COMPUTE GRAD2/A6 = IF J7.SEG01.gradtermint NE MISSING THEN ''|gradtermint ELSE ''|EDIT(DEANHLD.SEG01.gradint);
 

The results for both GRAD and GRAD2 are
19

when I want
'19

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Trudy,

Does this help?

-*
-SET &VAR1 = '19';
-SET &VAR2 = '''' | &VAR1;
-*
-TYPE VAR1 ------ &VAR1
-TYPE VAR2 ------ &VAR2
-EXIT

That doesn't actually display the ' before the number. I still am displaying only 19 not '19. I've tried outputing this to HTML and XLSX

What about this?

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
COMPUTE CAR1/A20 = '''' | CAR;
BY COUNTRY
END

My first example gives me this ...

VAR1 ------ 19
VAR2 ------ '19

Did you not get that?

The COMPUTE worked but the SET did not.

Thanks!