Search a string using REXX exec irrespectiive of case

Paul1983 · New User Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 37 Location: bangy

I'm trying to search for a particular string, irrespective of case, in the REXX code, its not fetching all the occurrence of the string. For eg: I'm finding for all the occurences of the string ' Call 'ABCD' ' in one COBOL program. I have two calls but one call is of the format ' CALL 'ABCD' ' and the other is like 'Call 'ABCD''. The REXX exec is fetching me only one string, that's ' Call 'ABCD' '. But my requirement is to fetch both. Is there any way to search for the string irrespective of the case other than putting a 'OR' condition to check to both lower case and Upper case.

Thanks,
Paul

superk · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:33 pm

No.

I'd consider changing the variable that contains the string to all of one case, either all upper or all lower.

Paul1983 · New User Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 37 Location: bangy

But I'm searching in existing Cobol Programs for all these call strings to convert to another string.But searching itself is not fetching all the strings.

Pedro · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:57 pm

I think SUPERK is suggesting that you convert all lines to uppercase before searching.

You would not want to save it back in uppercase, so I suggest coping to another file to work with and to find what you want.