Enclosing Character Strings in Quotes

You must enclose a character string in quotes in these cases:

When leading or trailing blanks are significant, as shown in this example:
```
WHEN(&JOBNAME EQ 'CICS    ')
```
When the ampersand character displays in a string and it may be mistaken for the beginning of a variable name, as in the following example. This example also shows how to concatenate quoted and unquoted strings by placing them side by side in a text string.
```
WTO(NOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL '&'VARIABLE)
```
When the string itself contains a quote or when the string has unbalanced parentheses, as shown in this example:
```
WTO('TEXT WITH MANY PARENS)))))')
```
Within a quoted string, you specify the quote character by writing two adjacent single quotes, as shown in these examples:
```
WTO('TEXT WITH ''QUOTES'' IN IT')
OSCMD('SEND ''IMS HAS ABENDED'',BRDCST')
```

Note: If you place two adjacent single quotes outside a quoted string, the two quotes evaluate to null, as shown in the following example:

The phrase OSCMD(SEND ''IMS HAS ABENDED'',BRDCST) produces:

SEND IMS HAS ABENDED,BRDCST