Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] New code added

[Fred M. <fr...@mo...>]

"William M. Klein" wrote:
> 
> Both of the VALUE with OCCURS clause "variations" were enhancements in the
> '85 Standard.  The '75 Standard did *not* allow both of those (as I recall).

The '75 standard did not allow a VALUE clause in an entry with the
OCCURS clause. It did, however permit a VALUE clause for a group field,
which can of course contain subordinate data items with an OCCURS
clause.

Regards,

Fred


> > From: cob...@li...
> > [mailto:cob...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim
> > Josling
> >
> > Thanks. I will have various options for comp, in which they get
> > translated into the internal comp format. It is amazing how
> > liitle I knew of COBOL after using it all these years.
> >
> > For example I didn't know you could do this:
> >
> > 01 x.
> >   02 y pic 999 value 123 occurs 100000.
> >
> > Even entry in the table gets set to 123.
> >
> > Or this
> >
> > 01 x value "ABC".
> >   02  xx pic x occurs 3.


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