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Vibudhgarg
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 Blank line in report by COBOL
AS/400 reporting, COBOL/400
Is it true that a cobol program while writitng a report always writes the first line as blank.

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ASKED: June 10, 2009  11:10 AM
UPDATED: June 11, 2009  6:00 PM
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Yes - the default action of a WRITE to a PRINT file is "AFTER ADVANCING 1 LINE". The only time I've found this annoying is on the first page of a report - unless you code for it the report always starts with a blank page. Actually there is a BEFORE ADVANCING 1 LINE option that gets around this.
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I programmed in COBOL a lot for a number of years in a former life. Never had the problem you described. It would be very surprising if a blank first page is the default. Granted, that was a few years ago. Maybe something changed in newer versions of COBOL.

WoodEngineer
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