Cobol...if it didn't have 5 letters I would say it is a 4 letter word hehehe
It's been too long since I looked at that wretched language to remember but I believe what it is saying is that you have a value with 6 places to the left of the decimal and 2 to the right...ie (0000)39.01...the leading zeros are place holders so that you could have 999999.99 but you would get an error if it was 9999999.99, since COBOL was all about the column it was in. I haven't touched COBOL in over 15 years, so I could be wrong. Eric -----Original Message----- From: Tony [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 1:17 PM To: cf-community Subject: cobol? has anyone done any cobol programming? if so, can you explain how to parse this value? i get this value: +00003901 and this description of what it is: s9(06)v99* eh???!?!?! thanks kids! tw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:314171 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
