In this example, when IN-NAME-1 is less than IN-NAME-2 (based on their ASCII val
ues e.g. A MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO IN-NAME-1 and MOVE HIGH-VALUES TO IN-NAME-2
It is important to note that HIGH-VALUES and LOW-VALUES are ALPHANUMERIC in type , so you can't set numerically defined variables to this type (you would have to implicitly redefine the variable first). This is an annoying quirk of COBOL