>>>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!
>>
>>VariableName PIC S999V99.
>
>Thanks, Grady.... we found some code here that will convert from the Decimal to the Cobol representation for negative numbers.

Okay sir.