Re: Beautify code

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Steve Rainbird wrote:
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Steve Rainbird wrote:
I have a huge Cobol program which I have been asked to maintain.
Unfortunately its very badly indented which makes it difficult to
follow.

Does anyone know of any software (preferably free) which will indent it
nicely for me?

Google came back with some interesting hits for the terms "COBOL
beautifier".

Not really. The only one it came up with was something called cblbeau
which costs $495 for the non-trial version. I only want to do one
program!

Really? I found <http://www.siber.com/sct/tools/cbl-beau.html> as the
first hit, which is advertised as shareware you can try with no line count
restrictions.


That is cblbeau. I tried it and it comes up with an error which says

"too many arguments: 512. This is likely to be a trial version limitation."

I'm not sure how you feel about shareware for what is probably a
commercial use, but I suppose a single use is not really a lost sale.

There is payware at <http://www.semdesigns.com/Purchase/#Formatters> for
US$250.

And it looks like SlickEdit can beautify COBOL, as well. Might be hard to
get a copy, but you could check eBay. Perhaps other editors also do this
(i.e., that Swiss-army knife known as Emacs might be a start).

If you already have a compiler license, see if your vendor has a
beautifier. For example, I think COBOL85 from Fujitsu has a bundles
"structurizer".

Finally, some products like JIndent might be able to do COBOL, or they are
considering it.


We use MicroFocus which I don't believe has a supplied beautifier unless
anybody knows otherwise.

Thanks for your other suggestions I think we may already have SlickEdit I
will have a dig.

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Steve

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