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From: Fred Exley on 26 Feb 2005 12:07 I'm looking for a substring function, or something similar, and about all I can find is 'unstring'. Apparently even the 'EXAMINE' statement is no longer supported. There must be a need for a string library (i.e., length, substring, trim, concatenate, etc.) in many business application, so it seems unbelievable these are missing in Cobol. Or am I missing something here? thanks -Fred
From: Michael Mattias on 26 Feb 2005 12:35 "Fred Exley" <fexly221(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:1121b5vcagem504(a)corp.supernews.com... > I'm looking for a substring function, or something similar, and about all I can > find is 'unstring'. Apparently even the 'EXAMINE' statement is no longer > supported. > > There must be a need for a string library (i.e., length, substring, trim, > concatenate, etc.) in many business application, so it seems unbelievable these > are missing in Cobol. Or am I missing something here? thanks What you are missing is called "reference modification" MOVE "hello world" to source-string MOVE Source_-tring ( 6:5) to dest-string DISPLAY dest-string << displays 'world' MCM
From: Richard on 26 Feb 2005 12:45 > Apparently even the 'EXAMINE' statement is no longer supported. Replaced by the much more powerful INSPECT. > There must be a need for a string library (i.e., length, substring, trim, concatenate, etc.) length -> INSPECT substring -> reference modification concatenate -> STRING
From: Fred Exley on 26 Feb 2005 12:54 "Richard" <riplin(a)Azonic.co.nz> wrote in message news:1109439952.635595.292720(a)z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... >> Apparently even the 'EXAMINE' statement is no longer supported. > > Replaced by the much more powerful INSPECT. > >> There must be a need for a string library (i.e., length, substring, > trim, concatenate, etc.) > > length -> INSPECT > substring -> reference modification > concatenate -> STRING Thanks much, Richard and Michael. Them thingees ought to do it! -Fred
From: William M. Klein on 26 Feb 2005 13:33
FYI, Although the other answers have provided "tools" to do what you (probably) want, I just thought that I should add that Micro Focus *does* still support "EXAMINE" - if the OSVS directive is turned on. (If you mean "mainframe" by "MF" - then it probably is NOT supported - at least none of the current mainframe compilers that I know of still support EXAMINE) -- Bill Klein wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com "Fred Exley" <fexly221(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:1121b5vcagem504(a)corp.supernews.com... > I'm looking for a substring function, or something similar, and about all I > can find is 'unstring'. Apparently even the 'EXAMINE' statement is no longer > supported. > > There must be a need for a string library (i.e., length, substring, trim, > concatenate, etc.) in many business application, so it seems unbelievable > these are missing in Cobol. Or am I missing something here? thanks > > -Fred > |