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jitu852
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Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Hyderabad
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in REPLACING statemant we enclose Pseudo-text by == Pseudo-text==
but what are Pseudo-text i am a bit confusse... |
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enrico-sorichetti
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Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 10872 Location: italy
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I guess that You are referring to cobol ...
and to the COPY statement with the REPLACE option like in
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COPY "some_copy_book " REPLACING ==something== BY ==something_else== |
just jargon..
somebody decided that it should be done in that way
they had to choose an arbitrary text delimiter
why they called it pseudo-text instead of something else ?? well...
You should ask the ID ( information developers, the people who write the manuals and the product specifications )
maybe because an arbitrary text can be just that... arbitrary
but in this context the text, pseudo-text, must follow the COBOL rules |
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dick scherrer
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Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 19244 Location: Inside the Matrix
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Hello,
Another thought for "arbitrary pseudo-text" might be. . .
It is arbitrary because it is determined by individual preference (working-storage field names are arbitrary). It is "pseudo-text " because it must follow cobol rules (free text would not have these rules). |
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