The @QUOTE statement redefines the delimiter characters apostrophe (single quotes) and quotation mark (double quotes) (see section “Delimiter characters”).
Strings which are enclosed in these delimiters are literals which play a special role in statements (see section “Statement syntax”).
Operation | Operands | F mode, L mode |
@QUOTE | [spec] [,char] | |
spec | Special character that is to be used as the apostrophe. When EDT starts, the value |
char | Character that is to be used as the quotation mark. When EDT starts, the value |
It is obligatory to specify one of the two operands. It is not possible to specify special characters which have a special meaning such as blanks, the semicolon in F mode, or the comma.
The characters used for apostrophe and quotation mark must be different as otherwise the statement is rejected with the message EDT4903. They must also be different from the wildcards as otherwise, the statement is rejected with the message EDT5461.
If spec is not one of the valid special characters then @QUOTE is rejected with the error message EDT3952.
Note
The specification does not apply to the operands in the @DO and @PARAMS statements.