Will the variable POS in the following code have a value of
2 or not?
01 POS PIC S9(4) COMP VALUE 2.
01 FIRST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'ABC'.
01 LAST-NAME PIC X(10) VALUE 'XYZ'.
01 NAME PIC X(20) VALUE SPACES.
STRING FIRST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES
' ' DELIMITED BY SIZE
LAST-NAME DELIMITED BY SPACES
INTO NAME
WITH POINTER POS
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Answer Posted / shobhit garg
No, It wont have value 2. rather value of POS will be 9.
Pointer specifies the number of non blank characters moved
to the receiveing string ( in our case its NAME).
So FIRST-NAME will return 3 bytes then a space then LAST-
NAME will return 3 bytes means overall 7 bytes.
Since our POS varibale starts from 2 , so overall count for
POS will be 2 + 7 = 9
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