What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?
Explain other COBOL usage?s.
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Comp -- binary form
Comp-3 Packed Decimal
Usages are:
Display: Default it occupies the number of bytes is equal
to the size of the data-item
Comp -- Binary Number of bytes is equal to the size of the
data-item
Comp-1 -- 4-Bytes no pic clause is required
Comp-2 -- 8-byted no pic caluse is required, Double
precision
Comp-3 -- Packed Decimal Number of bytes is
(n+1)/2 -- if n is odd
(n/2)+1 -- if n is even
Comp-4 --- Same as Comp
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