COBOL (IBM's anyway) only has single line comments and no mechanism for extending them to cover multiple lines. If you have uncommented lines between comment lines, the compiler will be attempting to compile the uncommented lines.
Debug lines, which have a D rather than an * in column 7, can be ...
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- by trudeaun
- Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:17 pm
- Forum: IBM COBOL, GnuCOBOL (OpenCOBOL), OOCobol.
- Topic: Compiler option to avoid comments in the COBOL program.
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