ILE COBOL Language Reference

REMAINDER Phrase

The result of subtracting the product of the quotient and the divisor from the dividend is stored in identifier-4. If identifier-3, the quotient, is a numeric-edited item, the quotient used to calculate the remainder is an intermediate field that contains the unedited quotient.

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The REMAINDER phrase is not valid if the receiver or any of the operands are floating-point items.

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Any subscripts for identifier-4 in the REMAINDER phrase are evaluated after the result of the divide operation is stored in identifier-3 of the GIVING phrase.


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