Tom,
Please reread my statement that you even quoted. I was talking about
NUMBERS and how they are stored.
Tony Thigpen
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From: Tom Marchant
Sent: 03/26/2014 09:42 AM
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 08:24:09 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote:
Now, as to COBOL, we normally deal with non-text based numbers.
Everything in the file is stored packed or binary, not as text.
Really? That isn't my experience. I worked as a Cobol programmer
for about seven years in the early 1970's and what I remember is
that there was a lot of data stored in the files that was character
data.
I have never had the need to do anything with regular expressions,
so I never learned how to use them. Still, I don't understand the
animosity that some seem to have toward them.
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Tom Marchant
