Re: Moving SPACES in numerical fields -- COBOL400-L

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Subject: Re: Moving SPACES in numerical fields
From: <Geir.Kildal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:02:19 +0300
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Miklos:

May be you need the INITIALIZE instruction.  It moves space to alfa-fields an 
zero to numeric fields.


        01 Test-item.
                05 alphafield pic x.
                05 Numfield pic 9.

        'INITIALIZE Test-item' gives space in alphafield , and zero in Numfield.

Regards
Geir

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