Grandpa Frank's Yearly Sales
A COBOL program that calculates the total yearly sales for Grandpa Frank's business. The program reads records from a file called SALES.DAT, which should contain records with the following format:
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YYYYMMDDAMOUNT
For example, a record representing a sale made on January 5th, 2021 for $100 would be:
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Prerequisites
A COBOL compiler, such as OpenCOBOL
A text editor for editing the COBOL source code
Compiling and Running
To compile the program, use the following command:
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cobc -x -free sales-manager.cob
This will create an executable file called sales-manager.exe. To run the program, use the following command:
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./sales-manager.exe
Input
The program reads records from the SALES.DAT file, which should contain records with the format described above.
Output
The program displays the total yearly sales for Grandpa Frank's business. For example:
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Grandpa Frank's total yearly sales: $10000.00
Built With
OpenCOBOL - The COBOL compiler used
Author
[Your Name] - Initial work - GitHub