Re: Newbie Question

In article <1149090772.312634.210890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
theHip <the_tragic_hip@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is stored is 2, but it is stored in binary. This seems like a
weird thing to do, truncated a value but stored as binary. How is
VAR1 used?

What version of CoBOL are you using? Compiler and OS.

I thought that that was what was stored there, but I couldn't make
sense of it. This routine is a check to make sure an account number is
valid. It goes through a whole bunch of multipys and divides and such,
and then the outcome of all this must match var2.

Unfortunately, all I was handed was a piece of paper with the code, no
clue what version of CoBOL was being used or compiler.

So let me get this straight... you don't know COBOL, you don't have a
compiler so you cannot test your results... and someone expects a valid
answer out of you?

Based on the amount of attention and resources being paid to this problem
there is no money involved in it... good thing, too!

DD
.

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