Causes the Compiler to treat any token which starts in area A in the Procedure Division as a paragraph or section label, regardless of the preceding tokens.
Syntax:
>>-.---.-.----.---AREACHECK------------------><
+-/-+ +-NO-+
Properties:
| Default:
|
NOAREACHECK
|
| Phase:
|
Syntax check
|
| $SET:
|
Any
|
Comments:
If AREACHECK is not specified, only tokens which follow a period are treated as possible labels. This directive provides closer compatibility with mainframe error handling, where omitting a period before the label produces a less serious message. We recommend that such erroneous source code is corrected.