You are working on a COBOL application that handles variable-length records in an employee database. Each record contains a variable number of dependents. How would you dynamically calculate the length of each record based on the number of dependents?
- DEPENDING ON
- LINAGE IS 66
- OCCURS
- RECORDING MODE IS V
The DEPENDING ON clause in COBOL is used to dynamically calculate the length of a record based on the value specified in another field. In this case, the number of dependents would determine the length of each record, allowing for flexibility in handling variable-length data.
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