Re: writing cariage return character

From: JerryMouse (nospam_at_bisusa.com)
Date: 06/11/04 

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:58:17 -0500

hpy_awad@yahoo.com wrote:
> My Cobol is RMCOBOL, And I am trying to I write new line into an
> input.fil say my record is :
>
> 01 file-record.
> 02 emp_no pict 9(4).
> 02 filler pict x(2).
> 02 name pict x(20).
> 02 ---writing carraige return character--Howw ???

02 file-crlf pic x(2).

....
MOVE X'0D0A' to file-crlf.

If your SELECT statment contains

   ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL

the compiler will insert these characters for you automatically. In other
words, each record becomes two bytes longer than your FD definition and
these extra two bytes contain 0D0A (carriage return/line feed).

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