Re: [open-cobol-list] opening files without hardcoding full paths ?

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 01:14:47PM -0400, Patrick wrote:
 
> Then I can hard code all the file paths into this directory but have the
> real files elsewhere.

You can also use environment variables instead of hard coding file paths.
If you have something like:

       SELECT DataFile ASSIGN TO "DataFile" ...

in a program, you can set the environment variable DD_DataFile to the full
path to the file.  That can make it a little easier to switch between test
and production files.  I wonder if that variable name syntax was inspired by
MVS JCL DD statements.



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