Last line before starting a new paragraph must ends with Dot "."
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#49 Last line before starting a new paragraph must ends with Dot "."
I was trying to parse below code koopa was failing due to it expecting last line before starting a new paragraph must ends with Dot "."
"." is optional in COBOL before start of the paragraph, so please make it optional.
Not working COBOL:
::cobolfree
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. MYTEST01.
AUTHOR. SAURABH.
*
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
*
DATA DIVISION.
*
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-VARIABLES.
05 WS-ABC PIC S9(16) COMP.
05 WS-PROGRAM PIC X(08).
05 WS-RESP PIC S9(08) COMP
VALUE ZERO.
LINKAGE SECTION.
PROCEDURE DIVISION USING SPL-COMMAREA.
EXEC SQL INCLUDE ABCDEFGH END-EXEC
100-PROCESS.
100-EXIT.
EXIT.
Working COBOL :
::cobolfree
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. MYTEST01.
AUTHOR. SAURABH.
*
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
*
DATA DIVISION.
*
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-VARIABLES.
05 WS-ABC PIC S9(16) COMP.
05 WS-PROGRAM PIC X(08).
05 WS-RESP PIC S9(08) COMP
VALUE ZERO.
LINKAGE SECTION.
PROCEDURE DIVISION USING SPL-COMMAREA.
EXEC SQL INCLUDE ABCDEFGH END-EXEC
.
100-PROCESS.
100-EXIT.
EXIT.
Suman, could you mention again which version of Cobol you're using ?
All references I have seem to indicate it as being compulsory. I even found a mention that "paragraphs are always preceded by a dot". So I'd like to understand which version of Cobol is allowing this.
Thanks