Re: Re: Cobol compiler date

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:30 AM, kerravon86 <kerravon86-/[email protected]> wrote:
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> It may not be rocket science, but it was a wonderful
> display of lateral thinking. At least in this instance,
> I thought this was too hard to find a "19" and the
> thought never occurred that it might be in the same
> place as a more easily recognizable string.
>
> And I would normally expect something like that to
> be an integer anyway, so you'd need to search for
> x'00000013' or somesuch.
>
> BFN.  Paul.
Actually, it probably would be a Character 19 C'19' for a simple move,
and not a zone decimal equivalent.
Next most likely would be a packed 1900 x'01900F', not a packed 19
x'019F' due to decimal alignment, but most manipulations would occur
after converting to Character..
Least likely would be a Binary 1900 or x'076C', and not Binary 19 or
x'0013', due to decimal alignment, but most manipulations would occur
after converting to Character.

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Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA
Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?