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COBOL search and replace of substrings in a string

  • February 15, 2013
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This article addresses COBOL search and replace of substrings in a string, the size of searched string and replacing strings being different.

Problem:

When doing a COBOL search and replace of substrings in a string, the COBOL statement INSPECT … REPLACING cannot be used. Why is the size of the searched string and replacing strings different?

Resolution:

The attachment CobSearchReplace.cbl is a COBOL implementation of a ‘search and replace’, the size of searched string and replacing strings being different. This sample was tested on Net Express 5.1 and Server Express 5.1.

Incident Number: 2420505

Old KB# 14755

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    This article addresses COBOL search and replace of substrings in a string, the size of searched string and replacing strings being different.

    Problem:

    When doing a COBOL search and replace of substrings in a string, the COBOL statement INSPECT … REPLACING cannot be used. Why is the size of the searched string and replacing strings different?

    Resolution:

    The attachment CobSearchReplace.cbl is a COBOL implementation of a ‘search and replace’, the size of searched string and replacing strings being different. This sample was tested on Net Express 5.1 and Server Express 5.1.

    Incident Number: 2420505

    Old KB# 14755

    Hello,

    Attachment CobSearchReplace.cbl is missing, please add.

    Hope i could reuse the cobol program to replace FINDREP in sort.

    Thanks

    Jay

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