Hi Gang!

Anyone know a little Cobol?

I have to send some data in a text file to another site, and they gave me a layout for the data they want. They use Cobol picture clauses to tell how they want the data items expressed.

I have a problem in how to express negative currency amounts....

Here is an example...

PAYMENT AMOUNT PICT S9(07)V9(02)

I can see an amount like $123.45 being 000012345 (the left seven being 0000123 and the right two being 45).

But how do I express -$123.45 ?? Since I can't put the - in the string at all, since it wants only numeric values......

Thanks!