Remove hex character in string using cobol

Aniyaa · New User Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Location: Bangalore

Hi,

I have a 'hex character' as part of a text string .
I want to remove this hex character and replace with spaces using a cobol statement.

For eg : THIS IS . ME

The . in the center represents the hex character . I want this to be replaced with spaces

like this : THIS IS ME .

I tried this command but its not removing the hex character.

INSPECT description REPLACING ALL LOW-VALUES BY SPACES

where description is the string with the hex character.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:02 pm

Hi,

Please show some actaul sample data in hex, ("HEX ON") and use the "Code" tag to make the data more readable as well as preserve alignment.

Aniyaa · New User Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Location: Bangalore

Suppose

The text is like this

input is

THIS IS X'30' ME (note: the x'30' is represented by a dot )

output has to be like

THIS IS ME

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:47 pm

let' s reword the issue..

how to substitute blanks for unprintable chars ( in ISPF are shown as dots )

is this correct ??

Aniyaa · New User Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 26 Location: Bangalore

exactly... enrico....

so happy.... you could figure it out..

the unprintable chars are part of a string .. I need the string , after replacing the unprintable chars with spaces..

I can replace one unprintable character using this command

INSPECT itemdescription OF WS-XML-TAG-DEFINITIONS
REPLACING ALL X'30' BY SPACES

but can i replace all the possible unprintable characters using some command ?

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:56 pm

I am in a good mood today

I searched the forum with "cobol unprintable" and ...

ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=17858&highlight=cobol+unprintable

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:09 pm

Another alternative --- Review the following (all postings of this LINK) -

ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=32610&highlight=strip+function

Regards,

Bill