Hello,

This seems like an easy thing to do, but being pretty new at COBOL, I'm not sure how to accomplish it:  I have created a very simple program that processes fixed-length ASCII files, and it works fine.  However, I would like to use the program on files that have other record sizes.  Right now, my FILE SECTION looks like this:

 FILE SECTION.

 FD  INPUT-FILE
     LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD.
 01  INPUT-RECORD.
     05  KEY-VALUE-IN     PIC X(10).
     05  INPUT-DATA       PIC X(128).          <-----

 FD  OUTPUT-FILE
     LABEL RECORDS ARE STANDARD.
 01  OUTPUT-RECORD.
     05  KEY-VALUE-OUT    PIC X(10).
     05  KEY-COUNT        PIC 9(4).
     05  OUTPUT-DATA      PIC X(128).          <-----

I would like the INPUT-DATA and OUTPUT-DATA to be variable size, depending on the size of the input file.  I'm sure that this is possible, but I'm pretty new to the language...

TIA,

Art Frank
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