Re: Understanding Error Messages

In article <8bbf994a-0d52-4bc2-beea-5d65c487ab54@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, ahsharif@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> I just ran a Hello-Word program:

So this program supposedly produced those errors, right?
> identification division.
> > >      1  IGYDS0001-W   A blank was missing before character "." in
> > > column 34.  A blank was assumed.
> >
> > >      1  IGYDS0027-S   Non-COBOL character(s) were found starting
with
> > > "." in column 34.  The characters were discarded.
It's not possible that the compiler is complaining about something it 
found in column 34 of a line that's only 24 characters long. What 
program did you really compile?

> program-id. test1.
> > >      2  IGYDS0001-W   A blank was missing before character "." in
> > > column 28.  A blank was assumed.
> >
> > >      2  IGYDS0027-S   Non-COBOL character(s) were found starting
with
> > > "." in column 28.  The characters were discarded.
It's not possible that the compiler is complaining about something it 
found in column 28 of a line that's only 18 characters long. What 
program did you really compile?

> environment devision.
> > >      3  IGYDS0001-W   A blank was missing before character "." in
> > > column 31.  A blank was assumed.
> >
> > >      3  IGYDS0027-S   Non-COBOL character(s) were found starting
with
> > > "." in column 31.  The characters were discarded.
It's not possible that the compiler is complaining about something it 
found in column 31 of a line that's only 21 characters long. What 
program did you really compile?

It's also vani****ngly unlikely that the compiler would fail to complain 
about the misspelling of "division". What program did you really 
compile?

> data devision.
> > >      4  IGYDS0001-W   A blank was missing before character "." in
> > > column 24.  A blank was assumed.
> >
> > >      4  IGYDS0027-S   Non-COBOL character(s) were found starting
with
> > > "." in column 24.  The characters were discarded.
It's not possible that the compiler is complaining about something it 
found in column 24 of a line that's only 14 characters long. What 
program did you really compile?

It's also vani****ngly unlikely that the compiler would fail to complain 
about the misspelling of "division". What program did you really 
compile?

> procedure division.
> > >      5  IGYPS0001-W   A blank was missing before character "." in
> > > column 29.  A blank was assumed.
> >
> > >      5  IGYPS0027-S   Non-COBOL character(s) were found starting
with
> > > "." in column 29.  The characters were discarded.
It's not possible that the compiler is complaining about something it 
found in column 29 of a line that's only 19 characters long. What 
program did you really compile?

>     display "hello" upon console.
> > >      6  IGYPS0001-W   A blank was missing before character "." in
> > > column 42.  A blank was assumed.
> >
> > >      6  IGYPS0027-S   Non-COBOL character(s) were found starting
with
> > > "." in column 42.  The characters were discarded.
It's not possible that the compiler is complaining about something it 
found in column 42 of a line that's only 33 characters long. What 
program did you really compile?

> Not more.
> What's the problem?

Tell you what -- why don't you copy and paste the *entire* compile 
listing, so that we can see what source program you *really* compiled?

It's obviously not the six lines you posted above.