MOVE and LOW-VALUES.

[Bhaskar Virgo]

Hello,

In the program, I've a field declared in working storage variable as:

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05 WS-FEE PIC S9 (8) USAGE COMP. 

and in procedure division I have:

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MOVE LOW-VALUES TO WS-FEE. 

With this, I got an error which states:

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"LOW-VALUES" and "WS-FEE (BINARY INTEGER)" did not follow the "MOVE" statement compatibility rules. 

The statement is discarded. 

Why is this error coming, please help.

[William Collins]

You can't MOVE LOW-VALUES TO a-binary-field. If you change it to MOVE ZERO it will compile and your field will get zero in it.

Reason is, LOW-VALUES is a COBOL Figurative Constant relating to the collating sequence used in your program. What relevance would collating-sequence have to a binary field?

Define binary, packed-decimal, plane zoned-decimal (PIC 9(n)), alpha-numeric (PIC X(n), alphabetic (PIC A(n)), numeric-edited and alphanumeric-edited fields. Try to MOVE LOW-VALUES to each of them, and see which work, and which don't, and try to understand why. It will be the same with HIGH-VALUES. What about SPACE? What about ZERO? Try them.

[nicc]

What has the declaration of WS-FEE to do with the rest of the topic as it is never mentioned after being shown?

[Bhaskar Virgo]

Thanks William.

nicc, I've aksed Anuj to change that some time back...I'm not sure why he has not chnged it. I had the sme problem with two vriables and mixed the error messge and the declaration while posting here.

[Anuj Dhawan]

nicc, I've aksed Anuj to change that some time back...I'm not sure why he has not chnged it. I had the sme problem with two vriables and mixed the error messge and the declaration while posting here.

Sorry for the delay - I was driving back to home that time and did it bit later. On the other hand, you don't need to wait for a single person for such things, you can use report this post feature to report a post and can put in the details there. The report will go to the Moderators and the first available Moderator can do that for you.