Question

"." in file name in COBOL

AS/400, COBOL

I have a file "P.FILE". I want to define it in COBOL, eg,
SELECT PFILE ASSIGN TO P.FILE, but the compiler won't accept it as it uses the period to mark the end-of-statement.
I can't rename or override the file name, it has to be P.FILE.
Any solutions would be greatly appreciated.

 SELECT PFILE ASSIGN TO "DATABASE-P.FILE".
 

works for me.

Bruce Vining
http://www.brucevining.com/

Bruce, Thanks that did it! One other problem, what about the COPY DDS for it, quotes don't seem to work there

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Try:

 COPY DDS-ALL-FORMATS OF "P.FILE"                         
      REPLACING == P.FILE-RECORD == BY == PFILE-RECORD ==.
 

You will most likely get an SEU warning about invalid syntax (I did), but just ignore it. The compiler will know what to do :)

Bruce
http://www.brucevining.com/