Q:what is the difference between the variable length and
fixed lenght.how it varies in the cobol.
Answer Posted / ragini roy
Fixed length strings, storage space required is length of string and range of values is 1to 65400 , characters, whereas the variable string length, storage space required is length +10 bytes and range of values is 0 to billion characters
| Is This Answer Correct ? | 0 Yes | 2 No |
Post New Answer View All Answers
Describe the cobol database components?
What is the difference between comp and comp-3 usage?
how do you reference the esds vsam file formats from cobol programs
What is the difference between structured cobol programming and object alternativelyiented cobol?
)If there are 10 steps in GDG, if I want to refer the step2 after step5 . what should I do?
What are the different data types in cobol?
what is difference bt COND, REGION & TIME parameters at JOB & EXEC. give an exp.
What is the difference between Call and a Link?
please..could u give an example about USAGE IS POINTER ..and explain why and when we use it ?
how to move the records from file to array table. give with code example
What are the pertinent COBOL commands?
if we have " ibm mainframe ",in that how to remove first and last leading space eg:"ibm mainframe" like that the answer we need
how we sort two input files based on a common column and giving one o/p file please send me the coding logic?
Discuss about changing dataset name in proc.
IF I mention stop run in CICS what happens?