The COBOL language allows for verbosity with optional words.
A programmer may wish to remove these optional words with the Remove
Noise Words feature.
About this task
To remove optional words from the source:
Procedure
- Right-click in the editor, select Refactor > Remove
Noise Words.
- Select the noise words you wish to remove, by enabling
the corresponding checkbox.
- (Optional) Click the Preview button to preview
the changes that will occur as a result.
- Review the changes, and click Continue to proceed
with the changes.
- Click OK to perform the refactor.