Exactly. Thank  you. 

Charles 

Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm assuming you saw my reply as to why it is valid.
>
>But I would agree that a simple "RTFM" is not valid here.  Yes, it is 
>documented.  But it is not at all obvious, even though once you know the 
>actual reason you can retroactively go back to the documentation and say "ah 
>hah!".
>
>
>
>
>>________________________________
>> From: Charles Mills <[email protected]>
>>To: [email protected] 
>>Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 11:00 AM
>>Subject: Re: Is this valid COBOL syntax?
>> 
>>No, Lizette, I'm sorry, perhaps usually questions of this sort can be looked 
>>up easily but if this particular question is so darned easy, why does nearly 
>>everyone here say it's invalid, but the compiler does not?
>>
>>Charles
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>>Behalf Of Lizette Koehler
>>Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:47 AM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: Is this valid COBOL syntax?
>>
>>Charles,
>>
>>Usually questions like these can be easily looked up in the Programming 
>>Langauge Reference Guides.
>>
>>If you go to the IBM website to the cobol webpage you can find the Library 
>>with this and other helpful manuals for COBOL
>>
>>http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/cobol/zos/
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