Array length change in length affect memory occupied

ashimer · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:18 pm

i have an array of pic x(10) occurs 10 times.

Now the length of the array is 100.
now in case 5 cases are filled with data and rest 5 are spaces will there be any change in length or memory occupied ????

DavidatK · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:40 pm

The memory is allocated at the start of your program. There is no difference in memory usage if the array is populated or not. COBOL have no concept of a 'NULL' value.

Dave

guptae · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:28 pm

Hi ashimer,
The array length will be 100 bytes only no matter whether array are poulated or not.