I have not used this program statement much and am not clear on syntax. The program statement evaluates a field - cursor.ins_type which contains one of five four character values COMP, MB, MCS, BC, FEP .
The statement looks like this:

IF cursor.ins_type $ "COMP:MB :MCS :BC "

My question -

What significance do the colons have in this. I can't find any help on the syntax for the character string. Can the character string just be continuous and yield the same result? (i.e. "COMPMB MCS BC"

TIA,

Bill