Re: [open-cobol-list] Declaratives in OC

[vince coen]

Hi;
On Saturday 31 May 2008, John Culleton wrote:
> I wrote a little program that opens a line sequential file. reads
> through it looking for lines beginning with "\input" , then picks up
> a file name from the same record.  Then it opens another file
> dynamically using the file name discovered. All that works.
>
> The problem comes when the file to be opened doesn't exist. HTCOBOL
> fails silently but OC gives an error message. What I want to do is
> trap the error so that processing can continue. The classic way to do
> that is with a DECLARATIVES section.
>
> Do DECLARATIVES work in OC?  With HTCOBOL?
>
> I can post the complete program but it runs 84 lines.

Now this could be complicated:) Why not just trap for any error (non zero) 
after opening and also consider select optional?

Vince.



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