Re: Tab delimiter


"Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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HeyBub wrote:

"If there are tab characters in an input record, spaces are inserted to
align the following characters to preset tab positions. The tab
positions
are 1, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68,
and
72. If a tab is present at a character position beyond 72, it is read
as a
single space."

When in doubt, do not trust the documentation.

So, I tested the above theory and, indeed, Fijutsu COBOL does replace
tabs
in input with blanks to force alignment at bytes/columns 8, 12, 16, etc.

So, you are now saying that you _can_ trust the actual documentation.

No. The documentation I have - that pertains to the Fujitsu COBOL 85
compiler - is completely silent on the above characteristic. Whether they've
revised the documentation and you have the newer set or whether you
concocted a scam out of whole cloth is, to me, unknown. All I'm saying is
that the results do not match the impression left by the documentation that
came with the compiler I use.


.

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