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meenakshi_forum
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Hi All,
Can anybody tell me the difference between Initailze and using value clause?
Sometimes we use value clause while decalration, for ex--
05 CMN PIC S9(4) COMP VALUE 0.
and some times we decalre a variable and in procedure division and we write--
MOVE SPACE TO WS-ADDRESS
where WS-ADDRESS happens to be alphanumeric
Please let me know the right way to initialize a numeric and alphanumeic variable, with example.
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Escapa
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Hi Meenakshi,
Basic difference is very clear. VALUE clause will assign value only once at start of execution of program where as INITIALIZE or MOVE are procedure division statements which can be used based of requirement of programming logic multiple times to reassign values to variables |
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meenakshi_forum
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Thanks for the reply
This confusion happens becuse in the languages like C, C++, Java,
It is said that initialization takes place first and then is the assignment.
So there the value you assign during declaration is intialization and futher in coding the value assigned is called assignment.
Any suggestions/comments are welcome.
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Terry Heinze
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| Another way of saying VALUEs are assigned at compile time and INITIALIZEs and MOVEs happen at run time. |
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Escapa
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the value you assign during declaration is intialization
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This is nothing but VALUE clause
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| futher in coding the value assigned is called assignment |
This is done by INITIALIZE\MOVE statements
Note: INITIALIZE is statement in cobol.  |
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neontech
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| Its always better to have values assigned .. rather then initializing it in the procedure division... only if you are doing for the first time... so as mentioned above depends on the program... |
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Bharath Bhat
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More often, I have come across with situations where we need to initialize in the procedure division.
VALUE clause works only for one time initializations. For most of the batch programs where we need to process n number of records, this may not suffice. |
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Anuj Dhawan
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One line answer is -- it depends, though to explain on what it depends will vary program to program (person to person?)
But before I start with, i believe I understand your question and if I don't answer what you need, please re-ask your question.
If you code:
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01 data pic xxxxx.
INITIALIZE program-data.
...
move input-value to program-data.
if data = 'xxxxx' |
think, do you really need INITIALIZE? You do NOT need to initialize the 'program-data' at all. The 'MOVE' statement will initialize the variable.
In other sense, you only need to initialize data variables when they
- don't have an initial VALUE clause
- AND are going to be referenced as a source of data prior to 'MOVE'ing something to them.
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01 var-x pic 9999 comp.
If var-x > zero
....
else
.... end-if |
var-x does not have a known value. If you don't initialize var-x, it may contain any value and that may cause your code to abend or give other incorrect results. |
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