I want to embed an & character in a text string for display in a report heading. The actual heading is
"Quarterly Sales Report for A&A Auto Sales"

I've tried the code below but it falls short of my goal.

  
-SET &A1 = 'A';
-SET &A2 = '&';
-SET &A1A2 = &A1 | &A2 | &A1 ;

&A1A2.EVAL

Ideas anyone?

Thanks

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Emily McAllister>,

There's an escape character you can use when you have to put an ampersand into a line like that. I forget what it is, maybe a backslash. Anyway, lookup "escape" or "amper" in the help. It's in there somewhere.

Concat bar: "Quarterly Sales Report for A&|A Auto Sales"

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"Quarterly Sales Report for A&|A Auto Sales"

Thanks Tony. Sometimes these little things are just out of reach, yet nearby.

Like a name, but, that's OK...

my apologies....

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Quarterly Sales Report for A&|A Auto Sales

In -SET you need the escape, since the left-hand side is an expression (and & variable references call for substitution).

In -DEFAULT it works without:
-DEFAULT &HDG='Quarterly Sales Report for A&A Auto Sales'
since the LHS of DEFAULT is just a constant.