How can I auto Indent for Cobol and JCl using Notepad ++

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Jacob picture Jacob · Oct 29, 2010 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

Any one Please tell me how to autoindent my cobol and JCL codes. It will be easy for me to write programs if i use those intendationi n notepad++. Please reply me.

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Joe Zitzelberger picture Joe Zitzelberger · Nov 8, 2010

Indenting JCL would be counter productive since all commands must start with a "//" in the first two columns.

Notepad++, at least version 5.8.3 and on, claims to have Cobol indention built in. Check your files and make sure the file extension lines up with what Notepad++ is configures for, usuall ".cbl" or ".cob" to activate auto-indention.

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