COBOL and $2,020,202.02

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I.e, it is all ASCII's fault. But what would EBCDIC spaces look like in my electric bill?

He gave that also: you get 4s instead of 2s.

My mistake.

umm, aren't almost all COBOL programs on mainframes which would be EBCDIC and not ASCII.

My very limited experience with COBOL was on machines running AOS/VS and then some version of Solaris. Both used ASCII.

Peoplesoft, about 25 years ago, used a lot of COBOL, and as best I recall it mostly ran its back end on UNIX of one sort or another--that was how I encountered it on Solaris.

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