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Absinthia
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Hi, everyone. I met with a problem like below
05 X PIC S9(05)V99.
05 Y PIC S9(05)V99.
05 A PIC 9(4)
05 B PIC 9(4)
Now A is 55, B is 365
COMPUTE X = A/B * 0.0012 * 5470
My question is ,what is the result of A/B, how does cobol determine the decimal points? for example, is the result 0.1506 or0.15068 or 0.15 or something?
I only know if we do it like this
Y = A/B ,the result will be determined by the PIC of Y. but don't the result when it's processed in the middle.
Thanks in advance. |
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Absinthia
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and if the definition of A and B is like this
05 A PIC 9(5)
05 B PIC 9(4)
what will be the result? |
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km_abdullah
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Hi Absinthia,
COBOL determines the decimal points based on the 'datatype' of resultant variable. The resultant variable stores the intermediate results in the formulae before computing the final result.
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| COMPUTE X = A/B * 0.0012 * 5470 |
In the above case, the result of A/B is '0.15' (since X has 2 dec places) and that is taken into consideration.
Hope this helps! |
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Absinthia
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| Thanks a lot, abdullah. It helps |
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Robert Sample
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| My question is ,what is the result of A/B, how does cobol determine the decimal points? |
There's a manuals link at the top of the page. Click on the COBOL Programming Guide and pull up Appendix A. This entire appendix discusses how COBOL determines intermediate and final results of arithmetic operations. |
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