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COBOL - Picture Clause Editing. Edited Pictures, are PICTURE clauses that format data intended for output to screen or printer. To enable the data items to be formatted, COBOL provides additional picture symbols to supplement the basic 9, X, A, V and S.
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17 sty 2013 · I need to move a PIC X defined field that has numerics with a 2 position decimal to a numeric field to perform an arithmatic function involving a comp-3 field. What is the best way to do this?
PICTURE symbol for editing is used to display the data in the user's desired format. These are classified into two types, and those are - Insertion editing - It is a way to format the data in the numeric variables, for displaying in human-readable format.
20 gru 2018 · Edited Picture Clause in COBOL is to format the display of data in the required format. COBOL provides symbols to format the data, these are called “Edit Symbols” and the PIC clauses that contain these symbols are called “Edited Picture clauses”.
The Picture clause is used to specify the type and size of an elementary data item. It consists of the word PIC or PICTURE followed by the actual picture clause, where the type and size are specified. The type is specified using a specific character selected from the table below.
Data types in COBOL define the type of data that can be stored in a variable. Common data types include PIC X for alphanumeric, PIC 9 for numeric, and PIC S9 for signed numbers.
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