Specifies that an identifier is a constant of a given value.
Syntax
%REPLACE name BY constant;
Description
The %REPLACE statement specifies that an identifier is a constant of a given value.
Beginning at the point at which the %REPLACE statement is encountered, each occurrence of name that follows the %REPLACE statement, as interpreted by the macro preprocessor, is replaced by the constant until the end of compilation or until another %REPLACE statement that specifies the same name is encountered.
The %REPLACE statement is normally used to supply the sizes of tables or to give names to special constants whose meaning
would not otherwise be obvious.
Example
%REPLACE MSG BY 'login';
PUT SKIP LIST(MSG);
...
%REPLACE MSG BY 'logout';
PUT SKIP LIST(MSG);
Description
The %REPLACE statement specifies that an identifier is a constant of a given value.
Beginning at the point at which the %REPLACE statement is encountered, each occurrence of name that follows the %REPLACE statement, as interpreted by the macro preprocessor, is replaced by the constant until the end of compilation or until another %REPLACE statement that specifies the same name is encountered.
The %REPLACE statement is normally used to supply the sizes of tables or to give names to special constants whose meaning would not otherwise be obvious.