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Q:what is the difference between the variable length and
fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol.

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Q:what is the difference between the variable length and fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol...

Answer / sam insa

when we declare array with its size is called as fixed
lengh and when we declare array with pointer it is called
variable length record.

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Q:what is the difference between the variable length and fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol...

Answer / bikash ghosh

fixed length code:=
it is a code in which a fixed number of source symbol
encoded into a fixed number of output symbol.

variable length code:=
it can allow sources to be compressed and
decompressed with zero error and still read back symbol by
symbol.

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