Re: COBOL 101 Question

Robert,

Yes - you can init a structure, as long as you name the immediate
group name. The fields in the group will be initialized with their
default values. If there are no default values specified on a field,
then numeric fields get zeros and character fields get spaces. I'm not
sure what you get for date and time datatype fields.

HTH

Jim



On 6/3/08, Robert Munday <rwmunday@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have an elementary question about initializing a table. Because of staff
turnover, there are no experienced programmers here who can answer this.

I have a code example which sets a counter and initializes each table
element until all have been initialized. Is it possible just to issue an
initialize on the whole table? We do that in RPG.

Thanks,



Robert Munday
Munday Software Consultants
Montgomery, AL
on assignment in Columbia, SC
soon to be somewhere else...


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