I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL program. how shall

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I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL
program. how shall i do that ?

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I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL program. how shall i do that ?..

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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I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL program. how shall i do that ?..

Answer / fdsfsdfs

yes it has to be declared COMP 2

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I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL program. how shall i do that ?..

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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I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL program. how shall i do that ?..

Answer / i go crazy

For COMP-2 we will not give PIC clause. By default it takes 8 bytes.

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I want to declare a field with data type Double in my COBOL program. how shall i do that ?..

Answer / sri

9(X) V99 or 9(X) V(Y)

Where X and Y are integers.

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