[open-cobol-list] Re: OC issues - number 4

[Sergey Kashyrin]

Roger,

Yes, adding spaces helps.
Initially it's a mainframe programs and mainframe has a fixed record format, so 
original program has those spaces.
They've probably been stripped when transfering from mainframe.
But as a matter of fact both Fujitsu and Microfocus are accepting that.

Regards,
Sergey.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger While" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: OC issues - number 4


> Let me guess - The line with the VALUE is immediately
> terminated after the apostrophe with a new-line
> and/or the following line is also terminated with a new-line
> immediately after the apostrophe.
> (At least BOTH are true when doing copy/paste from the post).
>
> This is then invalid.
> ie. The apostrophes would concatanate and be interpreted as
> one occurrence as per Cobol rules.
>
> Roger
>
>
>        IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
>        PROGRAM-ID. ztest INITIAL.
>        ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
>        DATA DIVISION.
>        WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
>        01 A.
>                10  FILLER              PIC X(78) VALUE '
>       -        '
>       -        '      '.
>        PROCEDURE DIVISION.
>            DISPLAY 'A=' A ';'.
>            GOBACK.
>
>
> Roger