Cobol - Re: REDEFINES in Micro Focus NetExpress 4

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Re: REDEFINES in Micro Focus NetExpress 4

epc8@juno.com

2005-05-06, 3:55 pm

What would FUNCTION NUMVAL(AFLD) do with a trailing minus sign?

Chuck Stevens

2005-05-06, 3:55 pm

According to both the Intrinsic Function Amendment to the '85 standard and
to the 2002 standard, the answer is "accept it".

The two formats allowed are
[space-string] [+ / -] [space-string] {digit [.[digit]] / . digit]}
[space-string]

and
[space-string] {digit [.[digit]] / .digit } [space-string] [+ / - / CR /
DB] [space-string]

See ANSI X3.23a-1989, American National Standard for Information Systems --
Programming Language -- Intrinsic Function Module for COBOL page A-59 and
ISO/IEC 1989:2002(E) , International Standard -- Information technology --
Programming languages -- COBOL page 623.

-Chuck Stevens

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