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Inspecting strings in COBOL - COBOL Tutorial
From the course: COBOL Essential Training
Inspecting strings in COBOL
- [Instructor] When we define variables as alphanumeric we often need to evaluate individual characters within the field. There are three string operations that I want to address inspect string and unstring this movie, I will show you an example that uses the inspect verb. The Inspect verb can be used for counting characters in a string, replacing one group of characters in a string with another group, and even converting a set of characters to another set of characters, such as converting a string from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa. For this example, we're going to use a file of employees. The employee input file contains the social security number followed by the name the birth date, the gender, and an email address in order to correctly format a report of all employees. I need to take the nine digit social security number as input and I want to print it using hyphens to format the number according to the social…
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