Re: [open-cobol-list] possibly bug: accept into numeric field

[Alain Lucari]

Le Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:43:55 +0900
Keisuke Nishida <address@hidden> a écrit:

> 
> What results do you suppose to obtain (or do you get
> from other compilers) by the following ACCEPT?
> 
>   Data item          Input
>   ---------          -----
>   01 X-1 PIC 99.     "123"
>   01 X-2 PIC 99V9.   "1"
>   01 X-3 PIC 99V9.   "123.4"
> 
> Maybe "23", "010", and "234"?  But it seems the standard
> requires X-1 to be "12". (At leat the NIST Test Suite has
> a test for this.)  Gee.
> 
I suppose that the quotes are just for explanation and not typed,
IMHO exactly 23, 010 and 23V4 with numerics receivers above
or "12", "1  ", "123" if the receivers are pic XX and XXX
 and "123.4" if the receiver is PIC X(5)
exactly like from a move.

Regards,
-- 
Alain Lucari (Eurlix)