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title: "Real Logic COBOL Date, Fraction and Strings"
description: "Here is all about Date, Fraction and Strings"
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date: 2013-04-24
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# Real Logic COBOL Date, Fraction and Strings

Explained Date, Fractions, and Dynamic strings for your reference.

## **COBOL Date, Fraction and Strings**

**Date**

Two Data types you can see [in COBOL](https://srinimf.com/2014/05/14/pipe-delimited-file/). Those are Text and Numeric. Modern applications need different data types. For example, you can say it as Date.

Related[Two Types of PLSQL Cursors: What are those?](https://srinimf.com/2022/01/23/two-types-of-plsql-cursors-what-are-those/)

```
03 DATE1      PIC 9(6)
```

**Date.**

It is numeric. But real Date needs ‘/’. So we need [to write](https://srinimf.com/2023/06/24/how-to-write-dynamic-sql-logic-in-cobol/) extra code to handle the Date.

Fractions

**Fractions. **

For example ’52/3′ COBOL does not understand directly this fraction. So we need to write a separate program, using unstring [to convert](https://srinimf.com/2016/03/07/how-to-convert-sql-error-code-into-text-message-dsntiar/) it into fractions.

Dynamic String

**Dynamic String.**

In modern applications we get variable strings. For this there is no data type. So we need to write extra code to handle this.

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- [COBOL really you need ideas to modify strings](https://srinimf.com/2016/06/01/cobol-examples-for-inspect-replacing-and-converting/)DateJune 1, 2016
- [Limitations of COBOL Intrinsic Functions](https://srinimf.com/2015/10/15/limitations-of-cobol-intrinsic-functions/)DateOctober 15, 2015

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