Cobol Intialize verb

vodeti · New User Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

[b]Hi,

Please give solution for this question.

In my COBOL program i have declared the working storage section as follows:

working-storage section.
01 A.
02 B PIC X(10).
02 C PIC 9(4) VALUE 1234.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
PARA1.
INTIALIZE A.

My question is:

what will be the values of B & C?

Thanks in advance

vodeti

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:04 pm

Vodeti...

Please refer manuals... for a better understanding of the statement...

B & C would be intialized to SPACES and ZEROES respectively.

Regards,

priyesh.

pa1chandak · New User Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 55

INITIALIZE WILL MOVE ZERO'S TO NUMERIC AND NUMERIC EDITED FIELDS.

AND SPACES TO ALPHABETIC AND ALPHABETIC EDITED FIELDS.

SO B WILL HAVE SPACES AND
C WILL HAVE ZERO'S

INITIALIZE WILL NOT WORK IN THREE CASES
1. FILLERS
2. DEPENDING ON
3. OCCURS
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bhoja · New User Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 49

what is the main use of initialize verb

Thanks
bhoj

Aji · New User Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 53 Location: Mumbai

Hi

Initialize will move spaces to b and zeros to c.

Regards

Aji Cherian

Rupesh.Kothari · Member of the Month Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 463

HI,

mijanurit · New User Joined: 26 Aug 2005 Posts: 33 Location: bangalore

hi!

B's value will be 10 spaces and C's value will be 4 zeros.

regards
mijanurit