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Consider the following COBOL entries:
05 X PIC 99 VALUE 10.
SUBTRACT 20 FROM X.
The resultant value of X wil be
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Answer / sayan
since no sign clause is mentioned, the minus sign is
ignored and the resultant value of X will be 10.
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Answer / rajiv gupta
Answeer would be 10. as 20 -10 should be -10 but X is not
declared as signed variable as S9(2)so answer is 10.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 5 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / swappy
Answer #3 is correct. Since there is no sign clause it will
just ignore the -ve sign and resultant will be 10.
Also Prabhu, there is no problem with the level no. There
will not be any error due to the level no.
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 1 No |
Answer / madhu
x=x-20 will be -10
Since there is a -ve sign in the beginning it'll be stored
on top of the last digit. So -0 = }.
Then ans will be 1}
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 4 No |
Answer / prabhu shankar
If u see the level number itself u can able to say that it
will show error. Because PIC will have the level number 77
and not like 01,02,03.
So it show the error only.Wll not exucute.
I think so. If any wrong plz apologise me.
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