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

Answer Posted / sruthi

Fixed length means the length of all records in the file is
same.so we code record length is x chrs
where as in variable length means the length of records are
varying from each other. so we code as record length is x
to y chars

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