Excerpted from message dated 10-22-95, Andrea Zaccagnini to All:

AZ>I have a stupid REXX problem, and no text I've read can help me. This
  >is a wrong REXX token:

AZ>If ((a="aa") | (a="bb")) then
  >...

AZ>but its meaning is quite obvious in other programming languages.
  >What's the right corresponding token?

Andrea--

    If your construct is really on two lines, as shown above, you need a
comma (continuation symbol) between the "then" at the end of one line
and the statement to be executed that appears on the second line.  In
REXX, unlike some other languages, a line-end is an automatic statement
end if there is no continuation symbol.  If the complete statement is on
one line in your original, I don't see anything wrong with it although
you have included some unnecessary parentheses (poor practice in an
interpreted language).  Here are a couple of lines from one of my REXX
programs that work fine:

    If (left(alarm,2) > 24 | right(alarm,2) > 59) then signal oops
    If (left(alarm,2) = 24 & right(alarm,2) \= 0) then signal oops

    If this doesn't help, can you post a little more of your program so
we can see the context?

          --Murray

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