John, That works in most cases. The exception being data cards to be consumed by AREAD, which may contain data in columns 73-80. I admit no sensible programmer would/should do that, those columns being prone to being inadvertently renumbered, but they might, they just might contain real data...
Cheers, Abe Kornelis Creating Value from IT. ================
What I do, after I download ASM source or JCL or anything else which __might__ have sequence number in it to "mess me up", is unconditionally remove whatever may be in columns 73-end_of_record, then remove trailing blanks too. It is simple with Perl (I use Linux on my desktop, not Windows).
John McKown
