I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL
program. how shall i do that ?
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Answer / tarunam
To Declare field with double data type u have to declare it
with comp-2
eg: PIC s9(8) usage is comp-2
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Answer / prasad
With the above answer we can achive decimal numeric
declaration but we will not achive double format
declaration.
To Declare double data type in COBOL we have to decalre
field with COMP-3.
Examples:
WS-NUM PIC 9(4) COMP-3. for non decimal numbers
WS-NUM1 PIC 9(4) v 99 COMP-3. For decimal values.
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Answer / i go crazy
For COMP-2 we will not give PIC clause. By default it takes 8 bytes.
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