Re: COBOL 101 Question -- COBOL400-L

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Robert,

COBOL supports this with the INITIALIZE statement. e.g.:

01 Data-table.
05 Table-entry occurs 15 times.
10 Data-element-1 pic x(5)
10 Data-element-2 pic s9(5)v99 packed-decimal.
. . .
. . .
Procedure Division.
. . .
. . .
Initialization-paragraph.
INITIALIZE Data-table
.

You can also use the INITIALIZE statement on the Table-entry or individual
data elements.

Michael Quigley
AS/400 Programming Section
The Way International
www.TheWay.org

cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/03/2008 01:00:06 PM:

----- Message from Robert Munday <rwmunday@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 3
Jun 2008 12:55:13 -0400 (GMT-04:00) -----

To:

COBOL <cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Subject:

[COBOL400-L] COBOL 101 Question

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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