Q:what is the difference between the variable length and
fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol.
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Answer Posted / sruthi
Fixed length means the length of all records in the file is
same.so we code record length is x chrs
where as in variable length means the length of records are
varying from each other. so we code as record length is x
to y chars
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