NET/MASTER Network Control Language (NCL) Programmer's Guide

Passing Parameters to Procedures and Functions
Procedures and Functions
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Smart Parsing. With smart parsing, NCL uses blanks and commas (,) to delimit
parameters. However, you can use a quoted string to preserve blanks and commas
and so pass blanks and commas as part of a parameter. You can double a particular
quote to pass a single instance of the quote as part of a parameter.
The following example shows a procedure declaration that specifies smart parsing:
zex0613n: PROCEDURE NOFOLD EXTPARSE SMART
/* Smart parsing */
SAY "&1 is "&1
SAY "&2 is "&2
SAY "&3 is "&3
SAY "&4 is "&4
SAY "Value of &SYS.PARMCNT is "&SYS.PARMCNT
SAY "Value of &SYS.ALLPARMS is "&SYS.ALLPARMS
END zex0613n
The following screen shows the results of executing the procedure:
(11:47) --------------------- OPERATOR CONTROL SERVICES ----------------------
START ZEX0613N One, Two, "Three, Four"
&1 is One
&2 is Two
&3 is Three, Four
&4 is
Value of &SYS.PARMCNT is 3
Value of &SYS.ALLPARMS is One, Two, "Three, Four"
NNM1005 START ZEX0613N PROCESSING COMPLETE. NCLID 002067
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