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how to remove leading spaces and zeroes in a cobol
variable.is there any easy way to do it

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how to remove leading spaces and zeroes in a cobol variable.is there any easy way to do it ..

Answer / s.p.reddy

By using edit character Z in PIC clause we can remove
leading zeros

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how to remove leading spaces and zeroes in a cobol variable.is there any easy way to do it ..

Answer / surendra

find the lenght of the leading spaces then move the actual
value of the variables using reference modification to
another working storage variable.

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