Equivalent command of UNSTRING in PL1

nehrujee · New User Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Kolkata

Hi,

I need to convert cobol program to PL1 program.

Can anyone help me what will be pl1 equivalent for below code snippet.

unstring Input_var delimited by ' ' or '/'
into var1, var2, var3, var4, var5
on overflow go exit-pgm

exit-pgm:
Exit

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Nehru

Gnanas N · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:44 am

Please look at String Handling Functions like SUBSTR, INDEX, etc

donateeye · New User Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 62 Location: chennai

You cannot unstring it as in COBOL,
You got to use the builtin functions INDEX, SUBSTR and use some logic to load it into those variables.

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:19 pm

Hello,

Depending on how complex the various unstring requirements of the system, you might consider creating a common "unstring" subroutine that is called from various pl/i code that needs to unstring delimited data.

This may be preferable to including the complete code to parse out the values in each place it is needed in pl/i. The called routine might even be coded in cobol. . . Once a cobol version was working as needed, consideration could be given to converting this called routine to pl/i.