title: COBOL reading sequential line file, count characters
body: <p>in COBOL I am reading from sequential line file. Line by line, to EOF, something like that</p>
  
  <pre><code>           read bank-file  at end
              move 'Y'  to end-of-bank
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And lines have variable length from 40 to 80 characters. And I need to know, how many characters are on each line. But line can end with some spaces, which I need count too. So I can't take length of string from variable in program. Is there any return value from READ statement, which returns number of characters from readed line (until, CRLF is reached)?</p>