On  in a message to All, Joey Snell wrote:

JS> for each individual file.  The .CFG file aproach is much more
JS> professional but I am having a helluva hard time getting REXX to
JS> interpret the file and disregard the commented-out lines that it
JS> should contain.  REXX apparently has no EOLN() or EOF()
JS> functions so it is very hard to control the reading of the file.

Check out the LINEIN() and LINES() functions in the online REXX
reference.  Something like this is what you need:

/* warning: untested code */

CFGFile = "MyFile.CFG"
do while LINES(CFGFile) = 1
    line = LINEIN(CFGFile)
    /* do all your line processing here, or perhaps store the lines */
    /* in a stem variable for later processing */
end


Ed Blackman

... I wrote in COBOL once, but I didn't compile.
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