What will happen if a variable is declared as below..
Explain with an example? Working storage section:-

01 WS-VARX PIC X(10) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ'.
01 WS-VARN REDEFINES WS-VARX PIC 9(5) VALUE '12345'.

What will happen I am going to Display the WS-VARX and WS-
VARN?

Answer Posted / mallikarjun

if you use redefines in your statement the numeric
declaration will be over rided and stored as charechter, i
have testing this practically

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