If that's really what you want, it would be  05 DELIM PIC X(3) and MOVE
'","' TO DELIM.
That's move singlequote doublequote comma double single.

But I doubt that's what you really want.  +1 on the Suprtool suggestion
On Sep 3, 2015 10:59 AM, "Newton, Ernie" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> It's been a long time since I wrote COBOL, and I have an elementary
> question about creating a comma-delimited file.
>
> If I want...
>
> "item one", "item two","","","item three"
>
> How do I create the "," between item one and item two?  Is it simply PIC
> "","" (quote comma quote inside double quotes?)
>
> And the ","",""," would it be the same?  Just put that inside double
> quotes?
>
> Something tells me that there is an escape sequence, but the mind is not
> cooperating.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ernie
>
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