FW: How to use COBOL to read QUIZ subfil

[Chris Sharman]

>>I am trying to use COBOL to read a QUIZ subfile. Can anybody tell me
>>what is the corresponding COBOL data type for QUIZ data type NUM?
>
>There isn't one :-(
>
>Poor old Cobol just doesn't understand floating point numbers. Change the   
>items in the subfile to zoned decimal or integer.

OK, I confess: I was once (briefly, occasionally) a VAX Cobol programmer.
VAX Cobol certainly does understand most datatypes (COMP-1,2,3 etc).

I guess other Cobols probably have extensions too, although perhaps not so much
as VAX Cobol: that was so extended a Pascal programmer like me could write
nice properly structured programs.
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Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.
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