Re: [GNU-COBOL] PIC

[Chad Slaughter <slaught@advancenet.net>]

David L. Nicol wrote :>
>
>I'm getting out of this that PIC is short for PICTURE,

PIC and PICTURE are both keywords for define the picture clause
which describes the general characteristics and editing requirements of
an elemetenry item. =)

>and that PICTURE is a language for defining record structure
>of packed data. 

record structure is a seperate thing. 

>Someone enumerated a few PIC primitives, possibly all
>of them.  Do vendors add vendor-specific letters to PIC
>syntax?

ummm...I could enum the basic characters that make up a PIC character stirng,
BUT it takes 9 pages of the std to describe them. I am sure someone can
either type it all in or explain it better then me.  
ok here are teh symbols sans meaning.. "AX9B0/PVZ,.*=-" plus the
credit, debit and currency symbols


yes, vendors do add specific letters and meaning to the PIC and all of cobol
for that matter, which is why we are concentrating on using the 85 std,
maybe the 9x when if its released(anybody have up date on that bad boy?)

Anyways, ignore all vendor extentions, its quicksand.

-- 
Chad Slaughter  -- slaught at advancenet.net

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