问题
I'm very new to COBOL. I'm following the tutorials that came with Micro Focus and I can't seem to get the example to work right. I'm trying to print -123.45 and I keep getting the following,
I looked up a number of posts on here and they don't address my problem. I'm using Micro Focus' Visual COBOL in Eclipse. Here's my code,
program-id. tictac as "tictac".
environment division.
configuration section.
data division.
working-storage section.
01 WS-NUM3 PIC S9(3)V9(2) VALUE -123.45.
procedure division.
Display WS-NUM3.
goback.
end program tictac.
回答1:
The V in your picture clause is an implied decimal point. I think you want a field with PIC -999.99, where the . is an explicit decimal point, for its picture clause.
You might think of this as COBOL making a distinction between how a variable is defined and how it is shown. Sort of like a format string in printf is just specifying how to show a variable, not how it is defined. Though in both cases the definition and how it is shown have to match up to a certain extent.
Choosing the right picture clause for a numeric field is important; if you're doing calculations it can have a significant performance impact.
So it's common to have a field with a definition such as...
PIC 9(4)V99 COMP-3
...and a corresponding field for output purposes such as...
PIC ZZZ9.99
...so that computations can be done on the first, and when displaying the field is necessary one uses a MOVE statement to copy the contents of the first to the second.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61176313/decimals-in-cobol