INDTXT (Indicator Text) keyword for display files

Use this file-, record-, or field-level keyword to associate descriptive text (indicating intent or usage) with a specific response or option indicator. You can specify it once for each response and option indicator.

The format for the keyword is:

INDTXT(indicator 'indicator-text')

If you specify this keyword, indicator-text is a required parameter value. The text is included on the computer printout created at program compilation time to explain the intended use of the indicator. This text's only function in the file or the program is a comment. The single quotation marks are required. If you specify more than 50 characters between the single quotation marks, the text is truncated to 50 characters on the program computer printout.

Option indicators are not valid for this keyword.

Note: INDTXT by itself does not cause the specified indicator to appear in either the input or the output record area. It merely provides text to be associated with the indicator. If the indicator has not been specified elsewhere (as either an option indicator or a response indicator), then the text is lost without a diagnostic. Also, once an indicator has been given a text assignment (either by this keyword or the response indicator text), no other text assignment is allowed.

Example

The following example shows how to specify the INDTXT keyword.

|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7....+....8
00010A                                      INDTXT(02 'Alternate month')
00020A          R MASTER
00030A            MTH                   2 10
00040A  02        ALTMTH                2 10
     A

INDTXT describes the use of option indicator 02. In a compiler computer printout for a high-level language, 'Alternate month' will be printed as a comment with the description of indicator 02.