What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic f

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and
ZEROES to alphabetic field?

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?..

Answer / varun v

1) Move Spaces to Numeric field:

Here program would give compilation error saying Spaces
to Numeric integer did not follow the "MOVE" statement
compatibility rules.

2) Move Zeroes to Alphabetic field:

Would work fine with Movement of Zeroes to the
Alphabetic field.

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?..

Answer / aliya

It will give SOC7.

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?..

Answer / ram.g

ans to last ans

anything you can move to alpha...provided ..ur input is w/n
quotes...

ans to ur qn...

its quite possible by using redefine command...

the field will be sharing same memorylocation..

eg: 05 ws-num pic 99
10 ws-char redefines ws-num pic x(2)

move 12 to ws-num
move 'ab' to ws-char

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?..

Answer / ram.g

sorry for post 3 2nd ans

it supposed for the qn ...x(7) to 9(9) nd vice versa..
plz refer the qn...

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?..

Answer / sivakumar sekharannair

compile error will occure if zeroes moved to alphabetic
field or spaces moved to numeric field.

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?..

Answer / jayaprabhu

spaces to umeric field will give data exp error soc7

bocz we cant move the spaces to numeric field

Zeroes to alphabetic we cant bcoz zeroes is numeric we cant
move into the alphabetic if we move it will give soc7

But using redefines we can moves num-alpa, alpa -num
these kind we use for copybook where in if you have one
field need to change for num/alpa.instead going for new
copybook .

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What will happen if we move SPACES to numeric field and ZEROES to alphabetic field?..

Answer / thavasi

all above answers are incorrect.

Move SPACES to numeric field:
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Moving spaces/non-numeric to numeric won't give any
compilation error or S0C7.

S0C will occur only when u do computation with non-numeric data.

ZERO to alphabetic field:
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MOVing ZEROS to alphabetic - will result in compilation error.

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