Declaring variable such leading zero should be supressed

prabe · New User Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 17 Location: kerala

Hi ,

I want to declare a varible in working storage such that leading zero should be supressed and those space are not left it as blank..

ie I declared a variale 'AUTH-CODE'
If I am moving a value '00045' then the edited result should be '45' not 'bbb45'. And give the memory utlization details such a varible

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 12:32 pm

Hello,

If you search in this COBOL forum, you will find an answer to this. If i recall correctly, there are multiple ways posted.

Here is one of them:
http://ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=13592

prabe · New User Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 17 Location: kerala

sorry, I want to know can we declare a variable such that it size will adjust according to size of input given to it ..

ie move 1256 to ws-auth ( then ws-auth size should be 9(4))

move 124 to ws-auth ( then ws-auth size should be 9(3))

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:31 pm

Hello,

No language i know of changes field definitions on the fly.

You need to define them and then use that definition.

The link posted will do what you say you want and there are other solutions posted if you take the time lo look for them.