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List-Directed Output

The LIST option specifies list-directed output.

The PUT LIST statement causes each value specified by the output list to be written to the stream file without the use of a format item. Each value to be output is converted to a character-string value using the normal rules for converting to a character string given in the section Data Type Conversions.

If the original output value is a bit string, the resulting character string is enclosed in quotation marks and a B is appended to its right end.

With PUT LIST and PUT DATA, if a variable of type AREA or a structure containing elements of type AREA is used as an argument, <...> is output as its contents. This is because the actual contents of the contents of AREA in these cases is not readable.

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