COPY REPLACING Issue -- COBOL400-L

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Subject: COPY REPLACING Issue
From: Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 15:20:51 +0000
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I am trying to work with an older DDS database and a field in the file has a # character in the field name. The COBOL compiler doesn't like that much. I've been trying to use the COPY REPLACING option, but every time I set up the "from" field name, it chokes because of the # character. Anyone have an example of how to get this to work?

Rich Loeber
Kisco Systems LLC
https://www.kisco.com

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