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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#365F91'>Is there a way to wrap the output of an EVAL expression in single quotes? I am doing a SPLICE to create a record ID that contains an asterisk *. However, in order for it to be read as a record ID and not a string I need it in single quotes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#365F91'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#365F91'>DOWNLOAD ACTIVREL ACTIVREL.DONOR.ID EVAL "ACTIVREL.DONOR.ID;TRANS('ACTIVITY',ACTIVREL.ACTIVITY,'COMPONENT.EVENTS','X');SUBR('-SPLICE',REUSE(@1),'*',REUSE(@2));TRANS('ACTIVREL',REUSE(@3),P20.ACTREL.ACTIVITY.NAME,'X')" NUM.VALUES ALL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#365F91'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#365F91'>If I end this right after the SPLICE command, I can see that it is generating what I want – DONOR*ACTIVITY – however trying to use that in the final trans results in nulls because Colleague isn’t reading it as a record id. However it is outputting the correct amount of nulls (one for each component) so it seems to be iterating through correctly. Any thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><ns1:place><ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'>Marc</span></ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'> </span><ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'>Bessler<br></span></ns1:PlaceName></ns1:place><ns1:place><ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'>Technology</span></ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'> </span><ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'>Support</span></ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'> </span><ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'>Specialist</span></ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'><br></span><ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'>Phillips</span></ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'> </span><ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'>Exeter</span></ns1:PlaceName><span style='color:#990000'> </span><ns1:PlaceType><span style='color:#990000'>Academy</span></ns1:PlaceType></ns1:place></span><span style='color:#365F91'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#990000'>20 </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><ns1:address ns0:style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" ns0:tabIndex="0"><ns1:Street><span style='color:#990000'>Main Street</span></ns1:Street><span style='color:#990000'><br></span><ns1:City><span style='color:#990000'>Exeter</span></ns1:City><span style='color:#990000'>, </span><ns1:State><span style='color:#990000'>NH</span></ns1:State><span style='color:#990000'> </span><ns1:PostalCode><span style='color:#990000'>03833</span></ns1:PostalCode></ns1:address></span><span style='color:#365F91'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><ns1:address ns0:style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: left bottom; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(res://ietag.dll/#34/#1001); BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-x" ns0:tabIndex="0"><ns1:PostalCode></ns1:PostalCode></ns1:address><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>Telephone: 603-777-3367<br>Fax: 603-777-4382<br>Email: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a href="mailto:mbessler@exeter.edu" title="mailto:mbessler@exeter.edu"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'>mbessler@exeter.edu</span></a><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#365F91'>Website: </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#365F91'><a href="http://phillips.exeter.edu/" title="http://phillips.exeter.edu/"><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue'>http://www.exeter.edu/alumni</span></a></span><span style='color:#365F91'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#365F91'> </span><span style='color:#365F91'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>