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jaimf
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Hi! Please help me out to display the Sign symbol along with $ currency sign.[/b]
I want the value to be displayed as shown below ,
-$9,999,999,999.99
Please provide me the picture clause for the above.
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expat
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| jaimf wrote: |
Please provide me the picture clause for the above.
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What have you researched for yourself
What were the results of your research
This is a HELP forum, not a Do my job for me forum.
Please show what you have done and then you are more likely to get some help. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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this has been discussed before; can't have two floating characters,
as the earlier thread discussed,
and as the picture clause discussion in the manual explains
or is this another one of those 'i know it is against the rules, but I want to do it anyway'
answer is that you need to use the currency symbol as the floating character
and then find the space before the currency symbol and move the negative sign or not (if it is positive).
why do people have to have leading signs and not trailing? |
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jaimf
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Exercise 1:
05 WS-RPT-SS-PREM PIC -$,$$$,$$$,$$$.99.
Input Value:
3.00
output result:
- $3.00
But i want the value to be displayed as mentioned below,
-$3.00
I also used the Z as parameter instead of $ then also iam not getting the output as i expected as shown above.
Please help me out by providing some suggestion to get the expected output. |
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jaimf
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Sorry some corrections in the output result of this exercise.
Exercise 1:
05 WS-RPT-SS-PREM PIC -$,$$$,$$$,$$$.99.
Input Value:
3.00
output result:
- $3.00
But i want the value to be displayed as mentioned below,
-$3.00
I also used the Z as parameter instead of $ then also iam not getting the output as i expected as shown above.
Please help me out by providing some suggestion to get the expected output. |
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jaimf
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output result:
-bbbbbbbbbbbb$3.00
where b=> Spaces |
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Robert Sample
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| As you have already been told, you cannot combine more than one floating insertion symbol in a PICTURE clause. You can achieve you goal by using reference modification, or you can accept what COBOL gives you using the PIC clause you have used. These are your only two choices. |
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Dham
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Symbols that can be used for floating insertion editing are
Currency sign + -
These symbols should be mutually exclusive.
So then how is code executing. Shouldn't there be an error when it is compiled with a Picture clause of "-$,$$$,$$$,$$$.99." Please clarify
COBOL Language Reference manual says.... :
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Floating insertion editing
This type of editing is valid only for numeric-edited items.
The following symbols are used:
cs + −
Within one PICTURE character-string, these symbols are mutually exclusive as
floating insertion characters.
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PS: I dont have mainframe access now so couldnt test this. |
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