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Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 1 for Eclipse (UNIX) > Programming > Data Access > File Handling > File Handling Examples > File Names > Example of Forced Filename Mapping

Example of Forced Filename Mapping

 select fd-name
     assign to "$file1"

This causes the system to search for the environment variable dd_file1. If this is not found, the system searches for the environment variable file1. If this is not found, the system attempts to open the file $file1.

Parent topic: File Names
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