Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] RECORD CONTAINS

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

David Essex wrote:

  > 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.

The 'RECORD CONTAINS integer-1 CHARACTERS' clause has been added to the
parser on CVS.

The 'RECORD CONTAINS integer-1 TO integer-1 CHARACTERS' clause will
still be trapped as an error.