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rohit jaiswal
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I have a requirement where I need to check for the occurence of a lower case letter in any position in a 25 byte field.
I tried it using inspect but it is converting it into upper case from lower and also tried using the hex values for lower case with inspect but it didn't work.
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ashimer
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is it that you want to check whether atleast one lower char is present ??
do you need the position ??? do you need which character is that ??
if there are more than 1 lower case then ?? |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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depending upon your verison of cobol, you can do several things, but I normally generate 88 levels attatched to a pic x(01) that I float thru the field with an index (you can use a subscript if you don't care about efficiency). The 88 levels I define as either x'....' range or if some idiot has already caused the source program to be upper and lower case - caps off as apposed to caps on, then I set it up as ranges
'a' thru 'i', 'j' thru 'r', 's' thru 'z'.
you can also use class condition.
If I have to enter lower case letters, I put it into a copybook so that I can keep my source program CAPS ON. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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Issue an in-line PERFORM and check each byte using ALPHABETIC-LOWER and then save each position in a position-array for each lower-case character found.
The position-array should be large enough to house the number of bytes associated with the target field, with each position defined as a binary-halfword (2 bytes).
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rohit jaiswal
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Hi Ashimer
I just want to know whethere there is a lower case letter in it or not thats it and i m not concerned abt the position. even if it is one then its fine with me, if i get so then i need to convert it into upper case which i can do using inspect. |
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rohit jaiswal
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hi Bill O'Boyle
can u provide me with more information on the alphabetic-lower function.
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Craq Giegerich
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| APLHABETIC-LOWER is a class condition not a function and is covered in the COBOL Language Reference for the version of COBOL you are using. |
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ashimer
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You can do this couple of ways ...
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01 ws-name pic x(25) value 'AsHIMER'.
01 ws-count pic s9(4) comp value 1.
01 ws-alpha PIC X(01).
88 ws-lower VALUE 'a' thru 'z'.
perform until ws-count >= length of ws-name
or ws-lower
move ws-name(ws-count:1) to ws-alpha
if ws-lower
then display 'lower char present'
display 'position=' ws-count
exit
end-if
compute ws-count = ws-count + 1
end-perform
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inspect ws-name converting
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
to
"@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@"
inspect ws-name tallying ws-count for '@'
if ws-count > 0 then
lower char present
end-if
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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I beg to remind everyone that the english alphabet is not one (1) range but 3:
'a' thru 'i', 'j' thru 'r', 's' thru 'z'. whether upper or lower. the ranges between i and j and r and s are not a part of the english alphabet. |
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ashimer
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| Thanks for that Dick. I really appreciate. |
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agkshirsagar
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| rohit jaiswal wrote: |
Hi Ashimer
I just want to know whethere there is a lower case letter in it or not thats it and i m not concerned abt the position. even if it is one then its fine with me, if i get so then i need to convert it into upper case which i can do using inspect. |
Anyways you are going to convert that charactar to upper case, then why look for it?
directly use function UPPER-CASE or INSPECT on that field? Let me know if I misinterpreted your requirement. |
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rohit jaiswal
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Hi All
Thanks for the quick response and the solutions in solving my problem, i have ran the job and getting the perfect output.
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ashimer
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