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COBOL Preprocessor
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"Robert W. Mills" <[log in to unmask]>
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Robert W. Mills
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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:54:11 +0100
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Greetings to the -L,

I am looking for information on how the COBOL Preprocessor internally handles the $DEFINE and $PREPROCESSOR commands.

During my time with the 3000 I used macros a lot. After 4 years without them on OpenCOBOL & MicroFocus I decided to write my own preprocessor.

The current version runs a bit slow (has to make 2 passes of the source file and uses an indexed work file) and can not handle nested macros but I'm still working on it.

regards,
Robert W.Mills

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