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i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?

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i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?..

Answer / paray2x

Most of the modern compilers support upto 31 digits. Try
compiling your program and you'll be able to find out.

Else, if your requirement is only to store and not do any
computation, you can have a group variable.

05 My-number.
10 My-number-part1 pic 9(15).
10 My-number-part2 pic 9(5).

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i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?..

Answer / vaneesh

Just write PROCESS ARITH(EXTEND) before identification
division, you can use upto 9(31).

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i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?..

Answer / nitesh sethi

Use ARiTH(EXTEND) as compile option and you can extend
numeric field upto 30 digits

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i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?..

Answer / yogesh

U can use either tables(ARRAYS) or can store those values
as elementary data items

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