We have a large application with thousands of COBOL programs many of which have edit masks UK/USA style ie with comma separators and decimal points like so - 999,999,999.99. We need to alter the picture clauses so they cause the numeric edited items to appear in European format ie with the "," and "." transposed like so - 999.999.999,99. Is there any way to accomplish this automagically in COBOL. We are trying not to have to find and edit every edit mask in every program which would be a very large and onerous undertaking.
Any ideas very much welcomed. Jim McAlpine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
