plz,could any one tell me? what about EBCDIC in cobol?briefly?



plz,could any one tell me? what about EBCDIC in cobol?briefly?..

Answer / adithya

it is extended binary coded decimal interchangble code

we can use numeric and non-numeric data

for 1 digit it wil occupy 1 byte

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