Without using move verb how to move one variable to another.

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Without using move verb how to move one variable to another...

Answer / sudha

01 A PIC 9.
01 B PIC 9.

Compute A = B.

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Without using move verb how to move one variable to another...

Answer / bala

We can do this in multiple ways.
1) Using UNSTRING
2) COMPUTE
3) Also, REFERENCE MODIFICATION i.e, if XYZ is a variable with value 'all interview' then
A = XYZ(1:3) moves the first 3 characters of XYZ variable to A.
i.e, A value will be 'all'

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Without using move verb how to move one variable to another...

Answer / monick

SET A TO B

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Without using move verb how to move one variable to another...

Answer / manikandesvaran

1)Using REDEFINES you can acheive this.

For ex.
10 WS-OLD-START-DATE PIC 9(8).

10 WS-NEW-START-DATE REDEFINES WS-OLD-START-DATE.
15 WS-START-YEAR PIC 9(4).
15 WS-START-MONTH PIC 9(2).
15 WS-START-DAY PIC 9(2).

Now WS-NEW-START-DATE will hold the value of WS-OLD-START-
DATE.

2)Using UNSTRING operator.

UNSTRING WS-NEW INTO WS-OLD

3)Using COMPUTE verb.

COMPUTE WS-NEW = WS-OLD.

4)Using SET statement.

SET OLD to NEW.

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Without using move verb how to move one variable to another...

Answer / raju

Let the variables and their values be A = 20 and B = 30
and we need to swap them as A = 30 and B = 20 without MOVE statement
BEFORE AFTER
A B A B
Way 1: COMPUTE A = A+B 20 30 50 30
COMPUTE B = A-B 50 30 50 20
COMPUTE A = A-B 50 20 30 20

Way 2: COMPUTE A = A*B 20 30 600 30
COMPUTE B = A/B 600 30 600 20
COMPUTE A = A/B 600 20 30 20

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