Yet Another Problem

[Tom Lake]

Why does this give a me syntax error on line 8 (ENVIRONMENT DIVISION)? It was always allowed in all my old programs.

       IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
       PROGRAM-ID. 'SYNTAX CHECK'
       AUTHOR.     T.R.LAKE.
       REMARKS.    THIS PROGRAM READS A DECK OF CARDS,
                       THEN LISTS EACH DATA CARD ON PRINTER.
       DATE-WRITTEN.      NOV. 1973.
      *************************************************************************
       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
       CONFIGURATION SECTION.
       SOURCE-COMPUTER.    IBM-370.
       OBJECT-COMPUTER.    IBM-370.
       INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION.
       FILE-CONTROL.
           SELECT CARD-FILE ASSIGN TO 'UR-2501-S-CARDIN'.
           SELECT PRINT-FILE ASSIGN TO 'PRINTER'.
      *************************************************************************

[Anonymous]

Program ID in quotes with an intervening space ?
Remarks is ancient syntax.
Probable cause two periods.
NOV. 1973.

[Tom Lake]

I tried removing lines 3-7 and I still get the error.
The quotes around the program ID were the problem.

PROGRAM-ID . SYNTAX-CHECK.

works.

[Vincent (Bryan) Coen]

Change program-id to ONE word without single quotes as that is not a
default any way and finish with a period.

On 28/05/2023 18:54, Tom Lake wrote:

I tried removing lines 3-7 and I still get the error.

[Simon Sobisch]

The quotes around the program ID were the problem.

Are you sure? The old code was

PROGRAM-ID. 'SYNTAX CHECK'

The new code is

PROGRAM-ID. SYNTAX-CHECK.

I'm quite sure that the problem was the missing period, in this case:

PROGRAM-ID. 'SYNTAX CHECK'.

should be fine - isn't it?