Re: [open-cobol-list] line sequential and string.

[Brian Tiffin]

No I was wrong Bill;  I quickly wrote
RECORD SIZE IS VARYING not the correct RECORD IS VARYING IN SIZE

My bad.

Cheers,
Brian

On March 21, 2009 01:04:39 pm Bill Klein wrote:
> What book are you using?
>   Record Varying in Size
>
> is ABSOLUTELY the correct syntax in any '85 Stand conforming compiler.
>
> The "in size" is OPTIONAL wording, but MUST be supported by a conforming
> compiler.
>
> Now, the OCCURS clause is different; but for the RECORD clause "in size"
> must be supported.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Culleton [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:06 AM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: Bill Klein
> > Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] line sequential and string.
> >
> > On Tuesday 03 March 2009 11:22:09 am Bill Klein wrote:
> > > My personal recommendation is that any time that you use
> > > RECORD DEPENDING ON in an FD, that you ALSO use the
> > > "corresponding" OCCURS DEPENDING ON in the subodirnate
> > > record, e.g.
> > >
> > > FD somelineseq
> > >
> > > >    RECORD SIZE IS VARYING
> >
> > This is has an error.
> >            RECORD IS VARYING
> > compiles. The word SIZE is not correct according to
> > my book.
> >
> > Continuing on.....
> >
> >
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