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Re: COBOL Preprocessor
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Michael Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Michael Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:02:40 -0500
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On 09/19/2012 11:34 PM, Michael Anderson blathered:
> Yes nested copy's do work, however the REPLACING clause does not work. 
> Worse (I think) COPY with REPLACING does not generate a compile error, 
> but the replacement does not occur.

I was wrong

OpenCOBOL does support the COPY REPLACING! As well as nested COPY's

In my test I used
     COPY "mycopymodule.cpy" replacing "ABC" by "XYZ"

no replacing occured!
and, using the quotes didn't generate a compile error.

but

     COPY "mycopymodule.cpy" replacing ==ABC== by ==XYZ==

that worked.

I guess I need to brush-up on my COBOL.  ;-)

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