To find the size of variable?

karamveer hooda · New User Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3 Location: India

HI,
Is their is any way to display out the length of variable we use through cobol program ? eg s9(11) comp-3.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:40 pm

you can always use:
DISPLAY LENGTH OF NUM-FIELD-1

What is your reason to display the length of a variable?

It will not change, unless you make a change to the pic clause and recompile the program.

If you generally need to know the length of fields, look at the compile listing.

karamveer hooda · New User Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3 Location: India

Thanks dbz,
Actually i want to know the variable length of those group variable having sub variable of sync, comp-3 like variables.
I want to know actual byte taken by variable. for eg.
s9(4) comp takes 2 byte.
I want to display this 2 byte in my spool through display or what so ever is the syntax. Looking forward for your reply.
thanks

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:06 pm

I would suggest that you look at the object map generated by the compiler.

Otherwise, the display statement that I provided will function.

karamveer hooda · New User Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3 Location: India

Thanks dbz..
i have implemented your suggestion