Re: [GNU-COBOL] PIC

[Fred Mobach <fred@mobach.nl>]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:

> Randall Bart wrote:
>
> > The most tedious of all items of COBOL grammar is PICTURE.
>
> I'm getting out of this that PIC is short for PICTURE,
> and that PICTURE is a language for defining record structure
> of packed data.
>
> Someone enumerated a few PIC primitives, possibly all
> of them.  Do vendors add vendor-specific letters to PIC
> syntax?

Yes :-). As I have stated in another post on this listing we can have the
Siemens Cobol85 Reference Manual in English - I'm afraid the German version
can't be read by many of you - and they're all documented in it.

Regards,

Fred


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