RE: Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: 0 bytes in Cobol strings

[William M. Klein]

ACTUALLY, if what you are looking for is null-terminated strings *and* you
want IBM "compatibility" what you should look at is 

   Z-literals 

see:
 
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3LR20/1.3.9.1.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of David Korn
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> Subject: Re: Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: 0 bytes in Cobol strings
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> 
> > I don't want to implement this kind of extension.
> > 
> > The standard way of writing the null character would be to use
> > X'' literal like this:
> > 
> >    VALUE '...' & X'000000000C'.
> > 
> > However, I haven't implemented the `&' operator (literal
> > concatenation).  Gee.
> > 
> > In any event, \0 is a valid alphanumeric character, so
> > I'll fix the compiler.
> > 
> > Keisuke
> > 
> 
> If the compiler can handle
>               VALUE '...' & X'000000000C'
> then I can modify the program that copied files from MVS to 
> put it into
> this format.
> 
> Can't you just use
>               VALUE '...' & X'00'
> to represent a single 0 byte?
> 
> David Korn
> address@hidden
> 
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