What is difference between comp & comp-4?
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Answer / satishk
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Answer / sachin
COMP-4 and comp is similar to Binary
COMP-5 is for display usage type.. termed as native binary
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Answer / thoms
comp
comp4
comp5
all of above stated usage clauses are used by cobol prog's
to store numeric values in a binary data formate inorder to
efficiently use memory.
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Answer / pal
Comp is computational clause
nothing but using the memory in a efficient way
i think there is no comp-4
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Answer / satya sivaji
Computational clauses allows cobol programe to efficiently
represent the data internally.There are 5 forms of
representing data which are
1).Display(default)
2).Comp
3).Comp-1
4).Comp-2
5).Comp-3.
And there is no Comp-4.
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