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Best in what sense of the word? Most easily recognized and maintained, or
easiest to code, or most performant, or...

I'm kind of partial to
       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
       CONFIGURATION SECTION.
       SPECIAL-NAMES.
           SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS TAB IS 10.
Then use TAB just as you would SPACE, in your VALUE clause (preferred) or
STRING statements. But I worry about portability, and
I get the impression that that is not everyone's biggest concern. Why would
we want to port FROM the 3000? Unless it is to show how slowly something can
run elsewhere...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Gilbert [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 1:34 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Tabs in COBOL output
>
> Hey gang, I need to create a tab-delimited output file in a cobol program.
>
> What's the best way to get the tab characters in my output line?
>
> TIA,
> Jim