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haseen_mohammed · Beginner Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 27 Topics: 14

Hi,

In my program I will get an input like +12345.67 or -12345.67 thru file. I need to take this value into S9(5)V99 to process inside the program.

One method is taking the value into a group variable which is cut as sign (X(01)) , before decimal, decimal (X(01)) and after decimal. then process based on sign to get the S9(5)V99 value.

Is there any easier method than this?
Which COBOL directly supports or some tricky way Smile

TIA

Haseen

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 10:16 am Post subject:

try NUMVAL, or NUMVAL-C
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dz · Beginner Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 26 Topics: 0

COBOL has so-called "de-editing" capabilities. Define input fied as edited
(PIC -------.99 ), and move the edited field to a numeric field
(PIC S9(5)V99) before doing anything

haseen_mohammed · Beginner Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 27 Topics: 14

HI,

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:23 am Post subject:

These are intrinsic functions, that can be found in any COBOL Language reference which can be found in the links provided at the top of this page under Quick Manuals
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kolusu · Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 9:11 am Post subject:

haseen_mohammed,

If you had put little effort and searched the application programming forum for "numval" you would have found these.

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=7518&highlight=numval

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=6153&highlight=numval

Hope this helps...

Cheers

Kolusu
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