CMS Command and Macro Reference (Rel 6 PLC 17 Apr81)
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EXEC Control Statements-&TYPE &TYPE Use the &TYPE control statement to display a line of tokens at the terminal. The format of the &TIPE control statement is: r-------- , &TYPE I [tokl [tok2 ••• [tokn]]] L tokl [tok2 •.• [tokn]] specify the tokens to be displayed. truncated to eight characters. If null line is displayed. All tokens are padded or no tokens are specified, a Lines displayed with the &TIPE control statement are scanned by the EXEC interpreter and variable symbols are substituted before the line is displayed. To display one or more unscanned lines, use the &BEGTYPE or &BEGTYPE ALL control statements. 2q6 VM/370 CMS Command and Macro Reference
EXEC Built-In Functions-&CONCAT Bu i It-I nFu nctions You can use the variable symbols. may be crsed only follows: EXEC built-in functions to assign and manipulate With the exception of &LITERAL, built-in functions on the right-hand side of an assignment statement, as &MIX = &CONCAT &1 &2 Built-in functions may not be combined with arithmetic expressions. Each of the built-in functions (&CONCAT, and &SUBSTR) is described separately. &CONCAT &DATATYPE, &LENGTH, Use the &CONCAT function to concatenate two or more tokens and assign the rescrlt to a variable symbol. The format of the &CONCAT function is: r I &variable = &CONCAT tokl [tok2 ••• [tokn]] L- &variable is the variable symbol whose value is determined by the function. tokl [tok2 •.• [tokn]1 specifies the tokens that are to be concatenated into a single token; for example: &A = ** &B = &CONCAT XX &A 45 &TYPE &B results in the printed line: XX**45 If the concatenated token is longer than eight characters, the data is left-justified and truncated on the right. Section 5. EXEC Control Statements 291