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COBOL, ENVIRONMENT_DIVISION, FILE-CONTROL, clauses, PADDING_CHARACTER
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  The PADDING CHARACTER clause specifies the character to be used to
  pad blocks in sequential files.

  Format -

   PADDING CHARACTER IS pad-char

  1 - pad-char 

  is a one-character nonnumeric literal or the data-name of a
  one-character data item.  The data-name can be qualified.
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