Author: Robert Sample
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:35 pm (GMT 5.5)
Be aware that COBOL dates back to 1959 and hence there is no such thing as a "string" in COBOL like in Java or Perl or C or ... And as your code snippet has it defined, W-Daten is an alphanumeric group level variable of 524,288 bytes. It contains an array but it is not an array.
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 5:35 pm (GMT 5.5)
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| What ist :W-Daten ? Is it an array or is it a string variable ?? |
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TANSTAAFL
The first rule of code reuse is that the code needs to be worth re-using.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth