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Re: Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: 0 bytes in Cobol strings
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David Korn |
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Re: Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: 0 bytes in Cobol strings |
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Tue Apr 6 11:27:23 2004 |
> 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
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