<p>If you have a fixed format cobol file, having any text in columns 1-6 will cause the highlighter to ignore a comment on column 7.</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-cobol"><pre><span class="pl-c">123456*DO-SOMETHING.</span><span class="pl-k"></span></pre></div>
<p>Would not be highlighted as a comment, for example. Whereas,</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-cobol"><pre><span class="pl-c">      *DO-SOMETHING.</span><span class="pl-k"></span></pre></div>
<p>Would.</p>
<p>I assume there's an assumption that if anything is in columns 1-6, then it's not a fixed format.</p>

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