Re: Zero supression and tinyCobol


"John Culleton" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Apparently in Tiny COBOL when one displays a pic 9 field at a specific
> location it is displayed as if it were defined as pic z. IMO this is
> obviously wrong, but does the ANS standard address this issue?

My previous answer addressed the ISO/ANSI COBOL
standard, but it was incomplete.

With respect to "field at a specific location", neither
the ISO/ANSI COBOL standard, nor X/Open (as far
as I can tell), have a DISPLAY statement for displaying
a "field" at a particular position. X/Open, and now,
ISO/ANSI have a DISPLAY statement for displaying
a "screen-name" at a particular location.

Thus, it would seem that displaying a field at a specific
location would be an implementor extension wherever
it occurs.

Whether this display-pic-9-as-pic-z is seen as an
implementor extension or implementor-defined, it would
seem that standards are of no help to correct what is
"obviously wrong".



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