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Re: [open-cobol-list] COBOL variables
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Kevin Monceaux |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] COBOL variables |
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:45:10 -0500 |
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Duke,
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 08:58:51AM -0600, Duke Normandin wrote:
Try something like:
> OOOO10 ID DIVISION.
> 000015 PROGRAM-ID. HELLO3.
> 000020 AUTHOR. Duke Normandin.
> 000030 DATA DIVISION.
> 000035 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
> 000040 01 CURRENT-DATE.
> 000060 05 YY PIC 9(4).
> 000070 05 MM PIC 99.
> 000080 05 DD PIC 99.
> 000150 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
> 000160 MAIN-PARA.
> 000170 ACCEPT CURRENT-DATE FROM DATE YYYYMMDD.
> 000180 DISPLAY 'Hello, Cruel World!'.
> 000190 DISPLAY 'Today is ' DD '-' MM "-" YY.
> 000200 STOP RUN.
I changed a variable name to avoid confusion between it and the date
format. I tried the above compiled via OpenCOBOL and the output was:
Today is 12-08-2009
In my area, I would change that to:
Today is 08-12-2009
:-)
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Kevin
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