Q:what is the difference between the variable length and
fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol.

Answer Posted / ragini roy

Fixed length strings, storage space required is length of string and range of values is 1to 65400 , characters, whereas the variable string length, storage space required is length +10 bytes and range of values is 0 to billion characters

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