[Info-vax] COBOL example $MGBLSC

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Sat Sep 9 10:02:54 EDT 2023


On 9/9/2023 9:29 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

> "Throughout this manual, and except where specific rules apply, the
> hyphen (-) and the underline (_) are treated as the same character
> in a user-defined word."

I guess that could be compared to "case insensitive", but while I consider case 
sensitivity to be less than reasonable, I find the above to be really stupid. 
Sure makes searching for specific words in a program complex.

Got to understand Bill's objection to such.

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