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  Message:      0232
 
  Text:         Edited PICTURE string is too large
 
  Explanation:  A PICTURE string which you have defined for an edited
                or numeric edited (one which presents numeric data items in
                a more readable form, for example, with leading zeros
                removed or with currency signs inserted) data item exceeds
                the maximum permitted for your COBOL system.
 
                Note that a string comprises 32 'slots', each containing
                16 characters. If no two consecutive characters in the
                string are the same, a new slot will be allocated to each
                character. For example:
 
                    X(32)B(480)
 
                will work, but:
 
                    XBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBXBX
 
                will fail.
 
  Resolution:   Alter the format of the string so that it contains no
                more than 32 groups of characters, each group holding up to
                16 identical, contiguous edit characters.
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