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Full stops not appearing

  • July 10, 2019
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Paul Richards

Some weird behaviour which I cannot fathom.

Given a simple program:

identification division. program-id. environment division. configuration section. data division. working-storage section. 01 function-key-pressed pic 9(4). procedure division. stop run. end program.

 As typed in Notepad, all full stops appear. When I input to VC2019, by cut/paste from Notepad, the full stops are not reflected and I get errors - COBCH0143 Unknown IDENTIFICATION DIVISION paragraph .

Strangely if I then cut/paste the code from VC to Notepad the full stops are there. Very strange

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    Paul Richards
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    • July 10, 2019

    Some weird behaviour which I cannot fathom.

    Given a simple program:

    identification division. program-id. environment division. configuration section. data division. working-storage section. 01 function-key-pressed pic 9(4). procedure division. stop run. end program.

     As typed in Notepad, all full stops appear. When I input to VC2019, by cut/paste from Notepad, the full stops are not reflected and I get errors - COBCH0143 Unknown IDENTIFICATION DIVISION paragraph .

    Strangely if I then cut/paste the code from VC to Notepad the full stops are there. Very strange

    So, using a Dark theme means that I cannot see the full stops - duh!
    The error disappears when I include a program name after Program-Id and End Program.

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