When working with variable-length records in COBOL, what additional information is often stored along with the data?
- Record Identifier
- Record Length
- Record Padding
- Record Type
When dealing with variable-length records in COBOL, the additional information often stored along with the data is the "Record Length." This length information helps the program know the size of each record in the file.
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