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Re: HP COBOL closing files.
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Walter Murray <[log in to unmask]>
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Walter Murray <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:48:52 -0600
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 "Shahan, Ray" wrote:
> Long ago and far away, the IBM's COBOL compiler would fail (severe error)
if
> it did not find a CLOSE statement for each OPEN statement in a COBOL
> program...don't know if this still the case for IBM, nor do I recall if
this
> is/was an ANSII standard?

I don't recall anything in the standard that requires a CLOSE statement to
be present, at least from the 1985 standard onward.  The compiler might want
to warn you about a missing CLOSE statement, but I'd say it's a bug if any
modern compiler failed to generate code because of it.

Walter

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