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Question: consider two data items
77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 23.75
77 W-B PIC ZZ9V99 VALUE 123.45
after the statement
MOVE W-A TO W-B
what will be W-B value?
a.123.75
b.b23.75 (where b indicates space)
c.023.75
d.invalid move

September 09, 2005 00:05:19	#1
Praveen Kumar	Member Since: September 2005 Total Comments: 6
RE: consider two data items 77 W-A PIC 9(3)V99 VA...
Ans is b ie.. b23.75 (where b indicates space). Reason is W-B is defined with editing characters Z which suppreses zeros with spaces.

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