Abbreviation: PIC
PICTURE is a data type attribute that specifies pictured values. Its format is:
PICTURE'p'
The picture 'p' contains an image of the data and specifies the editing to be performed each time a value is assigned to a pictured variable. It also governs the conversion of pictured values to fixed-point decimal values.
For a discussion of pictured data and the picture characters, see the section Picture Data in the chapter Data Types.