How to read data which is having editing characters?

keane · New User Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 5

I want to process a value with editing characters.

For example: If I have a value $1,250,000 in the input file, then i want to convert it into 1250000 for further processing.

Please let me know your ideas to acheive the above task

Bill O'Boyle

In the applicable COBOL manual, review the concept of DEEDIT.

Bill

dick scherrer

Hi Bill,

DEEDIT isn't found in any of the COBOL manuals we have linked (IBM Manuals at the top of the page).

Could you post a link (preferable for Enterprise COBOL) to some doc?

Thanks,

d

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject:

If you remove the $ you can move a numeric editted item to a numeric item. Look at the allowable moves in the COBOL Language Reference.

Robert Sample · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

BIF DEEDIT is a CICS function; if the program the O/P is working on is batch (which hasn't been specified), it can't be used.

Bill O'Boyle

In his 1993 COBOL/370 Book, Harvey Bookman discussed DEEDIT. Basically, you can move an edited-field back to a display-numeric (packed-decimal, maybe) field and perhaps, it was introduced with COBOL/370, I can't recall.

I'm on the road and the book is at home.

But, that's the gist of it.

Bill

Terry Heinze · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:21 am Post subject:

What you want is the NUMVAL-C intrinsic function (see Language Reference Manual).