PICTURE Clause documentation appears to be incorrect. about cobol-programming-course HOT 5 CLOSED

They haven’t yet discussed displaying numbers which are not whole numbers! If you want to make this work, try defining another variable called:
77 GROSS-PAY-DISPLAY PIC $$$$9.99.
And add these 2 statements after the COMPUTE of GROSS-PAY:
MOVE GROSS-PAY TO GROSS-PAY-DISPLAY
DISPLAY ‘Gross Pay Formatted: ‘ GROSS-PAY-DISPLAY.

Let us know how that goes!
ScottC

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@abickerton Did you try the suggestion? How did it go?

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@sccosel

Yes that works, But the question remains why the docs state the following.

PIC clause for a value such as $1,123.45 is coded as follows: PIC $9,999V99

Yet when it's used, the value shown is wrong (Gross Pay: $0,43700). I'm assuming it's something to do with integer & floating point but at this point I don't know if it's me or the documentation.

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@abickerton I assure you it's not you. The documentation is not wrong. Try to understand the explanation here: #44. Then let us know if you still have more questions!

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team is working on creating a md, mark down, doc in github for us to include all the excellent improvement suggestions .... we are waiting for md to be complete before we start hacking away at the doc - again - thanks for all the observations / contributions for improvement

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