How to handle low values from a file in a COBOL program

patriot · New User Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 8 Location: chennai

How to handle low values from a file in a COBOL program?
Ex: If i get low values for a particular field in a file, i should replace them by spaces. How do i do this?

vicky10001 · Active User Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 136

You can use INITIALIZE verb.

Syntax

<--------------+
>--INITIALIZE----identifier-1----------------------------------------------

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
? <---------------------------------------------------------+
+-REPLACING------ALPHABETIC-----------------------BY----identifier-2-----
+-ALPHANUMERIC--------? +-DATA-+ +-literal-1----+
+-ALPHANUMERIC-EDITED-?
+-NATIONAL------------?
+-NATIONAL-EDITED-----?
+-NUMERIC-------------?
+-NUMERIC-EDITED------?
+-DBCS----------------?
+-EGCS----------------+

Example

INITIALIZE variablename/verybookname

raak · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:55 pm

U can also use this..

INSPECT field REPLACING ALL low-values BY SPACE.

devidas-patil · New User Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 54 Location: pune

Hi all,
i want to know how we will get the low values in the field of file untill we move to the field.
if we are moving that we are moving purposefully for check or either when we read from one file and processed that data and want to read another record .