what will be the output ?

gnagakishore · New User Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 25 Location: Hyderabad

UNSTRING data-field DELIMITED BY "," , OR "/ "
INTO field-1, field-2, field-3, field-4 WITH POINTER P1
TALLING IN COUNTER-1 ON OVERFLOW GOTO PARA2.

suppose while executing the above statement if it encounteres two contiguous delimiters after sending a few characters in field-1 , what will happen ?

Deepa.m · New User Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 99

if two contiguous delimiter was found then next variable will have spaces In ur example,FIELD2 will have spaces FILED3 will have next set of characters until an other delimiter is found.

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:41 pm

Hi Deepa,

I have a doubt here, whether it will be SPACES or NULL.

Can you confirm again.

Thanks & Regards,

Priyesh.

vasanthanc · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 58

Since field2 is cobol variable, while declaration itself space will be allocated. So obviously it will have spaces and not null.
Kindly let me know, if I am wrong

swaran_msc · New User Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Bangalore

When it encounters two delimiters, the charcters b4 the first delimiter will be transferred into Field-1. After the second delimiter, the charcters will be transferred into Field-2 until it encounters another delimiter.

For an Ex

Data Field - IBM Global/,Services,Ltd

After Unstring Operation
Field-1 Value is - IBM Global
Field-2 Value is - Services
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Corrections are Welcome

vasanthanc · New User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 58

here, the question is about, what will be value if field2, if 2 delimeters are there consecutively

vidyasaraswathi · New User Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 72

Hi,
If the Data Field is IBM Global/,Services,Ltd
then the value of field2 is Services.

If the Data Field is IBM Global/,/Services,Ltd
then the value of field2 is /Services

vidyasaraswathi · New User Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 72

Hi all,
I agree with Mahesh.
Please ignore my previous reply.

I executed the Unstring example in the mainframes and found that if 2 continuous delimiters are encountered after some characters are transferred to field1, then the field2 will contain spaces.

Here are the result of the execution in different cases:

1)Data Field - IBM GLOBAL,/SERVICES/LTD

field1=IBM GLOBAL
field2= spaces
field3=SERVICES

2) Data Field - IBM GLOBAL,,SERVICES/LTD

field1=IBM GLOBAL
field2= spaces
field3=SERVICES

3)Data Field -IBM GLOBAL,,,SERVICES/LTD

field1=IBM GLOBAL
field2=spaces
field3=spaces

Deepa.m · New User Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 99

Field2 will be spaces. For above string "IBM Global/,Services,Ltd "
which is under discussion the result would be

FIELD1= IBM GLOBAL
FIELD2= <SPACES>
FILED3=SERVICES

why don't you check for yourself.