[open-cobol-list] Justified right.

[John Culleton]

I will be bringing in fields from another program that may be in the 
forms
1.23
12.34
123.45
etc. 
I propose to move these fields to a non-numeric and space-filled field defined 
as "JUSTIFIED RIGHT." Then I plan to redefine the field as 99999.99 or 
thereabouts.  Will this work? The intent is to take ASCII strings containing 
dollar values of any arbitrary length and convert them into numeric data for 
mathematical manipulation.

The strings will come in from a record that may contain  comma-delimited 
fields. UNSTRING will retrieve the data but the justification will be 
inherently left and not right.  
-- 
John Culleton