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murmohk1
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Hi,
Could anyone explain the difference between SPACE and SPACES (figurative constants) COBOL reserved words?
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Mohan |
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guptae
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Hi Mohan
I think SPACE is for one space & SPACES is for more spaces . |
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William Thompson
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| There is no difference, they both produce the same result. Grammatically speaking, the singular sounds better when used as one while the plural sounds better when used as many. |
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jcbhimani
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| SPACE represents one blank while SPACES represents more then one blank. Same as ZERO represents one zero while ZEROS or ZEROES represents more then one zero. |
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William Thompson
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num pic 9999
move zero to num
what is in num?
char pic xxxx
move zero to char
what is in char? |
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DavidatK
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As William said, There is no difference in function. SPACE, SPACES and ZERO, ZEROS. The only difference is readability.
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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 CHARSTR1 PIC X(20).
01 CHARSTR2 PIC X(20).
01 DECIMAL1 PIC 9(10).
01 DECIMAL2 PIC 9(10).
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
PROGRAM-START.
DISPLAY 'CHARSTR1 >' CHARSTR1 '< CHARSTR2 >' CHARSTR2 '<'
DISPLAY 'DECIMAL1 >' DECIMAL1 '< DECIMAL2 >' DECIMAL2 '<'
MOVE SPACE TO CHARSTR1.
MOVE SPACES TO CHARSTR2.
MOVE ZERO TO DECIMAL1.
MOVE ZEROS TO DECIMAL2.
DISPLAY 'CHARSTR1 >' CHARSTR1 '< CHARSTR2 >' CHARSTR2 '<'
DISPLAY 'DECIMAL1 >' DECIMAL1 '< DECIMAL2 >' DECIMAL2 '<'
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.SARPAGE 4
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.CHARSTR1 >....................< CHARSTR2 >....................<
.DECIMAL1 >..........< DECIMAL2 >..........<
.CHARSTR1 > < CHARSTR2 > <
.DECIMAL1 >0000000000< DECIMAL2 >0000000000<
******************************** BOTTOM OF DATA *****************************
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As you can see, SPACE and SPACES, ZERO and ZEROS produce the same data.
Dave |
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murmohk1
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Thanks all for the quick response.
In one of the program Im working upon (for small enhancement), I have group variable as follows -
01 group-var. (pic of all other level is x)
05 sub-var1 pic x(9).
05 sub-var2 pic x(3).
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05 sub-var12 pic x(242).
And also I have statement MOVE SPACE TO GROUP-VAR in procedure division. But found spaces was not moved (i.e., found earlier data in the variable).
So, just got a doubt regarding SPACE and SPACES functioning.
Regards,
Mohan |
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guptae
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Hi Mohan,
May be after moving spaces u r passing some value in the variable Thats why it is showing some value other than spaces |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
From one of the COBOL manuals. . .
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SPACE, SPACES
Represents one or more blanks or spaces. SPACE is treated as an alphanumeric literal when used in a context that requires an alphanumeric character, as a DBCS literal when used in a context that requires a DBCS character, and as a national literal when used in a context that requires a national character. The EBCDIC DBCS space character has the value X?4040?, and the national space character has the value NX?0020?. |
From that, one might read that SPACE will only do one.
Put the following into a pgm:
and the following was the result:
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01 SPACEMOVETEST.
05 SMT1 PIC XXX VALUE 'ABC'.
05 SMT2 PIC XXX VALUE '123'.
DISPLAY 'ORIGINAL ' SPACEMOVETEST.
MOVE SPACE TO SPACEMOVETEST.
DISPLAY 'AFTER MOVE ' SPACEMOVETEST.
DISPLAY ' '.
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ORIGINAL ABC123
AFTER MOVE
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When i did a preview, the PIC X(3) showed as TTT - is this an undocumented feature of the "reply editor"? Seems like tripleX is converted to TTT. XX and XXXX don't get converted. Must be the auto-censor at work. . . . |
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