Good day.


Here's the piece of code that has being going through my head.

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file-control.
*
select my-file
assign to '../../../files/myfile.dat'
organization is line sequential.

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I keep getting below error:
MicroFocus.COBOL.Program.COBOLFileHandlingException: ''../../../files/myfile.dat' : 9/009 (ANS74)
9 Directory not found'

I wanted to retain '../../../' as part of the directory. Can anyone help me please?

Thanks a million!

The location of the file (../../../files/myfile.dat) is resolved from the location where your program actually resides.

If you're building the program with the default output path, which .\\bin\\Debug\\, then the ../../../files/ folder should be at the same level as the project folder.

|_ProjectFolder
| |_bin
|   |_Debug (output path where the program is built)
|_Files (where myfile.dat is)

The location of the file (../../../files/myfile.dat) is resolved from the location where your program actually resides.

If you're building the program with the default output path, which .\\bin\\Debug\\, then the ../../../files/ folder should be at the same level as the project folder.

|_ProjectFolder
| |_bin
|   |_Debug (output path where the program is built)
|_Files (where myfile.dat is)

Fano's excellent example is for Visual COBOL for Visual Studio. If you are instead using Visual COBOL for Eclipse (and using the default project location) this would be the directory structure:

|_Directory *containing* Workspace Folder
| |_Workspace Folder
|  |_Project Folder
|   |New_Configuration.bin (output path where the program is built)
|_files (where myfile.dat is)

So in Eclipse, the files directory would need to be in the directory *above* the Workspace location.