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Procedure Specification Keyword Continuation Line

Procedure Specification Keyword Continuation Line

Free-Form SyntaxSee Free-Form Statements for information on the columns available for free-form statements.

If additional space is required for keywords, the keywords field can be continued on subsequent lines as follows:

  • Position 6 of the continuation line must contain a P
  • Positions 7 to 43 of the continuation line must be blank
  • The specification continues on or past position 44

Figure 1. Procedure Specification Keyword Continuation Line Layout

*.. 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+... 7 ...+... 8 ...+... 9 ...+... 10
P.....................................Keywords+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Comments++++++++++++