Re: [open-cobol-list] File path.

[Fred Mobach]

On Wednesday 08 May 2013 17:20:10 studiok wrote:
>
> It seems that:
>
> working-storage section.
>
> 01  myfilepath                pic x(50).
> 01  myfilename              pic x(20).
>
> Procedure division.
>
> move spaces                to myfilepath
>                                           myfilename
> move "something.txt"   to myfilename
>
> string
>           "/abc/def"              delimited size
>           "/xyz/"                   delimited size
>           "filename"              delimited spaces
            +--------> should be myfilename, the difference being the
data item myfilename with the value "something.txt" instead of the 
litteral "filename".
>           into myfilepath
> end-string
>
> ------------> that is /abc/def/xyz/something.txt
>
> string
>           "/abc/def"              delimited size
>           "/xyz/"                   delimited size
>           '"'                           delimited size
>           "filename"              delimited spaces
            =---------> see above.
>           '"'                           delimited size
>           into myfilepath
> end-string
>
> ------------> that is /abc/def/xyz/"something.txt"
>
> get different results. First of which file-status 35. Is it possible?

To be sure about the results the additional info is necessary:
- a source that can be compiled without erros,
- if the files /abc/def/xyz/something.txt 
and /abc/def/xyz/"something.txt" exist and if they are empty.
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