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to: Byron Desnoyers
from: Ed Blackman
date: 1995-06-26 13:18:56
subject: Passing Arguments to a REXX Program

On  in a message to All, Byron Desnoyers wrote:

BD> When ever I pass an argument to a REXX program the argument is
BD> converted to all capital letters for some bizzare reason.
[...]
BD> arg argument
BD> path"Zip.exe" argument

I wouldn't call "because you told it to" to be a bizarre reason.
"arg argument" is equivalent to "parse upper arg
argument", which tells
REXX to convert the arg to upper case before storing it in argument.

Use "parse arg argument" instead.


Ed Blackman

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