Need to Add two sign trailing seperate variables

balukanna · New User Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 41 Location: USA

Hi,

I need to add two Sign Trailing variables, for Ex,

I/p

Amount1 S9(04)V99 SIGN TRAILING SEPERATE
value 100000+
Amount2 S9(04)V99 SIGN TRAILING SEPERATE
value 280000+

Need an ouput like this

O/P

Total 380000+

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 12:04 pm

Hello,

I'm not sure there is a question here. . .

COMPUTE MY-TOTAL = Amount1 + Amount2 will sum the numbers.

balukanna · New User Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 41 Location: USA

Hi Dick,

i have tried it but it is giving an error

"An invalid separate sign was detected in program"

Cristopher · New User Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 53 Location: NY

Hi Balukanna,
What is the error code appearing? By any chance have you used a Redefine clause involving the sign position or you may not have initialized it.Can you share the details of the actual variables used in the computation.
Cris

balukanna · New User Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 41 Location: USA

Hi Cris,
I have initialized the fields, i haven't used any redefine clause,

Cristopher · New User Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 53 Location: NY

Balukanna,
Please provide the PIC clause definition of the variables RTV-EXT,CR-EXT and SETUP-AMT .
Hope you would not have used a group move involving the sign position.
Cris

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:56 pm

Hello,

Sorry - missed the separate sign

Where did input in this non-standard for come from (data with an external sign, but no punctuation)? Usually the decimal would be imbedded in the data, not implied. We process many uploaded pc and unix files that are punctuated with a decimal point and a sign and use the function NUMVAL-C to easily use the data.