Suppose i have a Cobol field of 10 byte. it contains a
decimal sign.How to know where is the point location?



Suppose i have a Cobol field of 10 byte. it contains a decimal sign.How to know where is the point..

Answer / chinmay

Suppose we have a amount
01 amt pic s9(5)v99
we denote the point location in v position

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