Re: Trying to use STRING



On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:02:40 -0400, "JJ" <jj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've always wanted a "DELIMITED BY TRAILING SPACES" clause for this purpose
(and several others).

When CoBOL was first developed, a field was a field was a field.

But now there is a need to communicate with a streaming output and
maybe re-thinking a bit at a time is not the optimal way. Enhancing
the old way of doing this a bit won't suffice.
.



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