AREACHECK

Causes the Compiler to treat any token which starts in area A in the Procedure Division as a paragraph or section label, regardless of the preceding tokens.

Syntax:

>>-.---.-.----.---AREACHECK------------------><
   +-/-+ +-NO-+

Parameters:

None

Properties:

Default:	NOAREACHECK
Phase:	Syntax check
$SET:	Any

Comments:

If AREACHECK is not specified, only tokens which follow a period are treated as possible labels. This directive provides closer compatibility with mainframe error handling, where omitting a period before the label produces a less serious message. We recommend that such erroneous source code is corrected.