On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:09:37 +0100, Jim McAlpine <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IGY3LR31/4.1.8 <quote> DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA Exchanges the functions of the period and the comma in PICTURE character-strings and in numeric literals. </quote> ... CONFIGURATION SECTION. DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA. ... -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
