Re: Tab delimiter


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.

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