comparing 2 numbers in cobol without using If statement

umesh khadaria · New User Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 3 Location: pune

I want to write a cobol code for comparinig 2 numbers but not to use any if condition. can anyone crack this?????

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

Hello and welcome to the forum,

You could use EVALUATE.

umesh khadaria · New User Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 3 Location: pune

I dont want to use any conditions. is there any code so that by using on compute verb we can do this.

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

Hello,

Maybe it will help if you describe exactly what you are wanting to accomplish.

umesh khadaria · New User Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 3 Location: pune

sure its a technical puzzle...
suppose i have 2 numbers A and B.
i want to find out which is greater. i cant use IF and Evaluate Statement.
one way i had found is sort them in a file and check there occurence.
is there any arithmatic computation by which we can achieve this..

enrico-sorichetti

... at the end of the string, You will find some kind of comparison,
( sort will have to compare things )

the only way to get away with it, given that the numbers are in the proper format,
is good old assembler, many arithmetic and load operations operation will set the condition code

I' ll leave to You to find out all the different behaviors,
two positive, two negatives, one of each

enrico-sorichetti

if it is a puzzle, You should have posted in a different forum
and be ready after a while to post also the answer....

expat · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

Maybe HOMEWORK is a better description of the thread.

Craq Giegerich · Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject:

Try Subtraction!