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Syntax
Examples
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data name 2
The receiving data item (you cannot specify a literal).
The following example shows a simple MOVE command.
The following example shows a MOVE; of a GROUP data item.
This logic sets TIMEW to 200402 and RECEPTW to 20040200.
Complex Form of the MOVE; Command
MOVE (MV)
The complex form of the MOVE; command enables the values of two data items to be
manipulated to give a new result. It has no effect on the contents of the first data item.
Values of different edit characteristics can be missed, although the sign of the first data
item is not moved. Due to a COBOL compiler restriction, an alphanumeric data item
greater than length 23 cannot be moved to a numeric or signed data item.
If you move a mixed alphanumeric and Hankaku-Katakana value into an EDIT; W data
item, the value is moved character by character, and is truncated to the length of the
data item. However, if you move a mixed alphanumeric and Hankaku-Katakana value into
an EDIT; A data item, the value is moved byte by byte and is truncated to the length of the
data item. If the truncation occurs after the first byte of a double-byte Hankaku-Katakana
character, this will result in an invalid character.
Note: EDIT; W data items are not implemented in LDA.
There are two variants of the complex MOVE; command: direct and sorted.
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