Level 88 with Value

saurabhgemini10 · New User Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 5 Location: India

Hello All,

77 A PIC X(1)
88 B value "YES"
88 C value "NO"

Will this work??
If this works then what will be the value??
If this doesnt work, then what error??
Please let me know.
Thanks in Advance

Bharath Bhat · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

Try it out and then ask a question.....

revel · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:25 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Welcome to forum,

the above code will throw error; Any how i will tell use of 88 level

The 88 Level
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Consider an example

saurabhgemini10 · New User Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Posts: 5 Location: India

Thanks revel...

Marso · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject:

It won't work for 2 reasons:
1. Field is one char long and values are 3 char long.
2. You have to put a period (.) at the end of each sentence in WS.

Assuming that the field is now PIC X(3), it is still without value.
If you want to have a default value, use:

Cristopher · New User Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 36 Location: NY

saurabhgemini10 with all this valuable information do remember that its not necessary to have 77 level variable to define flags(88 level variables) and it is a good practice to give default value to the variable and use set in place of move as suggested by Marso.

Cris

anil.csk · New User Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Noida

i will work fine...