Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] RECORD CONTAINS

[David E. <de...@ar...>]

On 20/10/03, Adrian Parker wrote:

> Will the RECORD CONTAINS clause/statement ever 
> be added to TC?
>
> e.g.:
> FD F01-VEHICLE-FILE
>    RECORD CONTAINS 89 CHARACTERS
>    DATA RECORD IS F01-VEHICLE-RECORD.

The short answer is yes, eventually.

Since the record lengths are determined by the record descriptions, the
'RECORD CONTAINS integer-1 CHARACTERS' clause would be treated as a
comment, and ignored.

As to the reason why TC is generating an 'UNIMPLEMENTED' error, is to trap
certain types of variable record length records.

Specifically the 'RECORD CONTAINS integer-1 TO integer-1 CHARACTERS' clause.