Check for string value "{" creating error....

[Doug Johnson]

Progress V.91E - Windows XP sp2

I'm trying to check for the existence of the character "{" in a string. But when I do:

IF SUBSTRING(thestring,1,1) EQ "{" THEN .....

I get an unmatched curly braces error. How do I escape the {? Or, can something else be done?

Thanks!

 

[danishgambit]

Afternoon,

try the tilde character - it works for me.

Regards,

DG.

 

[Cringer]

DEFINE VARIABLE thestring AS CHARACTER   NO-UNDO.

thestring = "~{1234~}".

IF SUBSTRING(thestring,1,1) EQ "~{" THEN
  MESSAGE 123
    VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.

 

[Doug Johnson]

Nice Thanks everyone!!!