What is the use of special-names clause

guruguha · New User Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 12 Location: Chennai

Hi,
What is the use of special-names clause in Environment division?

eg: the syntax is like:

C02 IS LCP-CH2

Please come with a nice reply since this is seldom used.

Thanks,
Karthikeyan.

William Thompson · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:48 pm

The SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph:
Relates IBM-specified environment-names to user-defined mnemonic-names
Relates alphabetic-names to character sets or collating sequences
Specifies symbolic characters v Relates class names to sets of characters
Specifies one or more currency sign values and defines a picture symbol to represent each currency sign value in PICTURE clauses
Specifies that the functions of the comma and decimal point are to be interchanged in PICTURE clauses and numeric literals

Is that "nice" enough?

guruguha · New User Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 12 Location: Chennai

Hi Thompson,
Sorry I could not understand this.
Please explain me clearly.

William Thompson · Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 4:53 pm

Why don't you take a look at the documentation on the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph and the topics that follow it in the manual. They can explain much more clearly.
If you still have some specific questions, feel free to ask them.

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 12:20 am

Hello,

I believe this is overstated.