MOVE SPACES TO variable-what does it mean

amalraj_ece · New User Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 21 Location: delhi

MOVE SPACES TO variable-what is actually happenning here

mkarmegam · New User Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 13 Location: USA

Let us say you have declared a variable WS-COUNTRY PIC X(25).
The WS-COUNTRY has value 'CHINA' in it. You just want to flush out and replace with spaces. Then you just do MOVE SPACES TO WS-COUNTRY. Now the value of WS-COUNTRY is SPACES. I am thinking the question may not be as simple as I answered here.

guptae · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:27 pm

Hi There,

To initialize the variable we used to move spaces to the variable otherwise it will contain junk value.