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Thanks John for the response.It worked!


John A Arnold wrote :

The key to converting character to numeric in COBOL is the redefines
statement in Working storage.

05 WORK-PERCENT PIC X(9). 05 FILLER REDEFINES WORK-PERCENT. 10 FILLER PIC X(4). 10 WORK-PCT-AMT PIC 9(3)V9(2).

MOVE Character-value TO WORK-PERCENT. MOVE WORK-PCT-AMT TO Numeric-field.

John A Arnold
(301) 354-2939
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