Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Programming Guide

Punctuating long input lines

Line continuation character

To transmit data that requires 2 or more lines of space at the terminal as one data-item, type an SBCS hyphen as the last character in each line except the last line. For example, to transmit the sentence “this data must be transmitted as one unit.” you enter:

:'this data must be transmitted -
+:as one unit.'

Transmission does not occur until you press ENTER after “unit.'”. The hyphen is removed. The item transmitted is called a “logical line.”

Note:
To transmit a line whose last data character is a hyphen or a PL/I minus sign, enter two hyphens at the end of the line, followed by a null line as the next line. For example:
xyz--
(press ENTER only, on this line)

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