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[malvolio]

It's several decades since I last did COBOL, but back then different column regions denoted different functions of the code, e.g. Area A & B etc. Is this no longer the case?

Depends how readable you want it to be it has no relevance to function. You can read good COBOL straight off the page

[sadkingbilly]

what a load of old COBOL !

[northernladuk]

what a load of old COBOL !

Why do you FACT off then