i want to store 20 digits . h will u do it in cobol ?
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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.
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Answer / nitesh sethi
Use ARiTH(EXTEND) as compile option and you can extend
numeric field upto 30 digits
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Answer / yogesh
U can use either tables(ARRAYS) or can store those values
as elementary data items
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