Re: Tab delimiter

I would be curious exactly what your documentation has. If you go to the LRM
and look at the READ statement, do you find a section called
"RULES FOR LINE SEQUENTIAL FILES"

If so, what does the first rule under that heading say? In the current LRM it
says,

"1. When a READ statement has been executed for a line sequential file, some
record data may be transferred to the internal format. Refer to "NetCOBOL User's
Guide" for the transfer rules of record data."

This is how I got pointed from the LRM to the USER GUIDE that talks about "tab
expansion". It may not be "supper-clear" - but it certainly IS documented that
"some conversion" may happen.

Again, I would really like to know what your LRM says. (I don't have an old
Fujitsu LRM handy)

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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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