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from: Andy Willis
date: 2004-10-06 17:22:58
subject: Re: REXX - CASE/SELECT Problem - SOLVED

Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:

>In , on 10/06/2004 
>   at 04:43 PM, "Don{ald} O.
Woodall" said:
>
>Hi All
>
>     Well, i finnally solved it myself.
>
>  
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>>Hello Rexxers
>>    
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>>    I need to find some one to who I can pay my syntax.
>>    
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>>    Verbose code to follow.  It has a bunch of debug code in it.
>>    
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>>/*  Main Program  */
>>/*  ------------  */
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>>Do WHILE Lines(dirlist)
>> string = linein(dirlist)
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>> SELECT
>> /* ---------------------------------------------------------------- */
>> /*  WHEN left(string,5) = Press THEN Pkount = Pkount + 1            */
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>       WHEN left(string,9) = 'Press any' THEN Pkount = Pkount + 1
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>     Anyone have a clue why the word "Press" by itself was
>not sufficient to do the job?
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>     Thanks for helping me think out loud.
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You have 'Press any' inside ' whereas Press is not?
Andy

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