Specifying a range of statements

A range of statements can be identified by specifying a beginning and ending statement id, separated by a hyphen (-). When the current programming language setting is COBOL, blanks are required around the hyphen (-). Blanks are optional for C and C++ and PL/I. Both statement ids must be in the same block, the second statement cannot occur before the first in the source program, and they cannot be equal.

A single statement id is also an acceptable statement id range and is considered to begin and end at the same statement. A single statement id range consists of only one statement or verb even in a multistatement line.

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