continuation character 1

[debakadeb]

What is the continuation character when you want to continue a display to then next line in the source code?

 

[slade]

The easiest way to continue a DISPLAY stmt to the next line (if that's what you meant) is:

DISPLAY 'word1 '
        'word2 '
        'word3'
This displays as:

word1 word2 word3

You can also intersperse Datanames for display.

To continue a literal in a VALUE clause or in a Procedure Division stmt (including the DISPLAY stmt, if you like) is:

 Cols 7    12                               72
      ^    ^                                ^
                   'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      -            'x'

HTH, Jack.

 

[debakadeb]

Thanks Jack,

I was trying to continue a literal (it was that little hyphen that was missing). That was one of the things my instructor failed to go over in class -- and I tend to be wordy so I needed that little bit of information .

Thanks for responding.

Deb