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Is there any way that we can handle "&" from the input strings.??

For handling any special characters , we can specializee the string using CTRAN,GETTOK.

Even for these functions, we need to find the length of the input string. So even in that case too , the string that is followed by & is treated as a variable.

So is there any way to handle it ??

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you can say

TYPE &INPUTSTRING

This will give you the value

TYPE &INPUTSTRING.LENGTH

This will give you the length

is this what you need?




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You can try '&|string'.So it will not consider as variable.

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CTRAN THIS: 37 TO THIS: 43
in your inbound string
that changes & to +

.LENGTH is good if your inbound has no trailing blanks.
otherwise
ARGLEN function is a good bet.



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Thanks Shobia.

Your approach worked. SO all I need to do is , after the user enters a string from the frontend , i have to replace the string which has & to &| , so that i can handle it in fex.

Susannah , the problem is that , if i am applying any functions over a string that has & , then that will upright throw an error asking for a value.

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