Continuation characters

More than one separator is allowed between keywords.

Control statements must contain 80-character fixed length records. You can enter the command and keywords anywhere in positions 1 through 72 of the input statement. Leave positions 73 through 80 blank; they are ignored.

If you need to continue a control statement on another line, you must use a continuation character. The two continuation characters are the plus sign (+) and the minus sign (-). The minus sign does not delete leading separators. The plus sign deletes leading separators from the continued line. The only time you must use the plus sign is when you need to split the keyword value. This is an example of when you must use the plus sign:

This example shows an example CAPSYSIN data set with typical control statements.