What is LENGTH in COBOL II?

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What is LENGTH in COBOL II?..

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LENGTH acts like a special register to tell the length of a
group or an elementary item.

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What is LENGTH in COBOL II?..

Answer / satish

length is inistric function it tell's how bytes occupy by
dataitem

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