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HP COBOL II/XL Quick Reference Guide

$EDIT 

The $EDIT preprocessor command can be used to bypass all records of the
masterfile whose sequence fields contain a certain value, and renumber
the numeric sequence fields of records in the newfile created by merging
a textfile and a masterfile.

Syntax 

     $EDIT [ parameter=subparameter ] [, parameter=subparameter ] [...]

Parameters 

parameter        either VOID, SEQNUM, NOSEQ, or INC.

subparameter     either a sequence value, a sequence number, or an
                 increment number.  Which one is used depends on the
                 parameter.

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