Reg the column 7 continuation character ( - )

Aaru · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:25 pm

Requirementt is to search a table and check for the equality of four fields. while checking, I had wrongly coded the continuation character (-) in column 15 instead of 7. I did not notice this and to my surprise the compilation job ran fine.

why wasn't there a compilation error?

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 9:52 pm

Hello,

Why was there a continuation character?

If you post the code (5 lines before, the line in question, and 5 lines after), we can see what you are asking aobut.

Aaru · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:41 pm

Actually there was no need for a continuation character but used it by mistake and that too in the 15th column.

gn below is the piece of code

CICS Guy · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:54 pm

Is ERR-XYZ numeric?
While it compiles ok, does it run ok?
The manual does say "Any arithmetic expression can be preceded by a unary operator"...

abin · Active User Joined: 14 Aug 2006 Posts: 198

Hi Aaru,

I tried a simmillar piece of code not search but evaluate.

Aaru · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:41 pm

Hi Cics Guy,

Even though the compile job ran fine, i dint get the expected results and the run failed.

Hence it should have considered "-" as a unary operator.

Aaru · Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:44 pm

Thanks abin for the code and the explanation. I guess it has considered
"-" as a minus sign and that is the reason my check failed everytime.