Tool for moving cobol comments to next line

tugga11 · New User Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Charlotte

Changeman supports entering your comments after a cobol statement on the same line . Endeavor doesn't support it. We are migrating from Changeman to Endeavor.

Is there a tool that identifies comments entered on the same line as cobol statement and then takes the comments and push it to a new line in next row.

If I run the above tool for a cobol program , all comments that were entered on the same line as cobol statement (For example a line can have comments starting column 40 to column 60 on the same line as cobol statement) should be removed from that line and inserted into a new line in the next row as a Cobol comment.

Nic Clouston · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:48 pm

Well, there you go! You should have stuck to the syntax in the COBOL Language Reference.

It probably would not take long to write a quick Rexx (or COBOL) program to split the line. Presumably these comments start with and identifier similar to the PL/1 or Rexx /* or SQL --.

tugga11 · New User Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 10 Location: Charlotte

Yes. The comments start with /* and i want to split the line from this point . Can you please share a tool for this. ?

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:58 pm

It would be interesting to see some samples of the comments.

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:23 pm

Since we usually comment before code, why not push the comments above rather than below?

Pedro · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 6:37 pm

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

You know...I think a DFSORT step could do this. That would be a piece of cake for the PARSE/BUILD combination.

Of course, this assumes that the only place where you'd see /* is in a comment.

Is the close comment a '*/' ?

Can comments be on aline by themselves, and is it '/*.. */' for them too?