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."

No. The documentation I have - that pertains to the Fujitsu COBOL 85
compiler - is completely silent on the above characteristic.

Version 4, that I initially quoted from, is COBOL85.

As it happens I also have a copy of the Cobol97 version 6 on a Windows
machine. Firing that up and looking in the documentation I find, in
just a few seconds, the exact wording that I had also found in the
version 4 and that Bill had found in the latest documents. It is in the
User's Guide on page 378 with examples on page 379 exactly where I
would expect anyone to look for it in Chapter 7 "File Processing",
"Using Line Sequential Files".

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.

It seems to me that there are a lot of things that are, to you,
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.

Before I posted the effects I tested them with a small sample program.
If you had done that _before_ you posted it would have saved a lot of
agro.

.

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