pygments-ibm-cobol-lexer 1.0

Cobol db2/cics/dli IBM Mainframe syntax lexer for Pygments

This package contains a Pygments Lexer for cobol (db2, cics and dli embedded)

Many early programming languages, including Fortran, Cobol and the various IBM assembler languages,
used only the first 7-72 columns of a 80-column card

### MAINFRAME COBOL CODING FORM:
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Columns
1- 6 Tags, Remarks or Sequence numbers identifying pages or lines of a program
7 Continuation, comment or starting of a new page
8 - 72 COBOL program statements
73- 80 Tags, Remarks or Sequence numbers (often garbage...)

=> Column 7 * (asterisk) designates entire line as comment
/ (slash) forces page break when printing source listing
- (dash) to indicate continuation of nonnumeric literal
=> Columns 8-72 divided into two areas
- Area A - columns 8 to 11
- Area B - columns 12 to 72

Division, section and paragraph-names must all begin in Area A and end with a period.
CBL/PROCESS statement can start in columns 1 through 70

### Installation

The lexer is available as a Pip package:

pip install pygments_ibm_cobol_lexer

### Usage

After installation the ibmcobol Lexer and ibmcobol Style automatically registers itself for files with the ".cbl"
extensions. Therefore, usage is easy:

- pygmentize -O full,linenos=tab,style=ibmcobol -o test.html HORREUR.cbl
- pygmentize -O full,encoding=iso8859-1,outencoding=latin1,linenos=tab,style=ibmcobol -o HORREUR.html HORREUR.cbl