[open-cobol-list] Declaratives in OC

[John Culleton]

I wrote a little program that opens a line sequential file. reads 
through it looking for lines beginning with "\input" , then picks up 
a file name from the same record.  Then it opens another file 
dynamically using the file name discovered. All that works.  

The problem comes when the file to be opened doesn't exist. HTCOBOL 
fails silently but OC gives an error message. What I want to do is 
trap the error so that processing can continue. The classic way to do 
that is with a DECLARATIVES section.

Do DECLARATIVES work in OC?  With HTCOBOL?

I can post the complete program but it runs 84 lines. 
-- 
John Culleton
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