ending position of the string

Aravind Kumar. S · New User Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 26

hi,

How to find the ending position of the string?

DISPLAY FUNCTION LENGTH(WS-UTLXW-OUT-VARIABLE). Is this correct for finding the length of the variable ?
if not plz. correct me.

Thanks,
Aravind

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:21 pm

Aravind Kumar. S · New User Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 26

Hi ,

In this case, my string contains no spaces in between.I used Inspect verb. it's working fine.

can u help me for this scenario,

Search string = abcd
IN-STRING = memberabcd (contains spaces,#,numbers also)

I want to Compare first character of Search string with the characters in IN-STRING until match is found.
If a character is matching, then read the next character in Search string and compare it with the character following the matching character in IN-STRING.
If end of the field in-string is reached and no matching character found display errror.

is there any verb for comparison in cobol ?

Thanks,

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:24 pm

I think I have already given solution for this in another POST by you only.

http://www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=4083

Regards,

Priyesh.

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Arivend,

Try something like this:

INSPECT FUNCTION REVERSE(TEXT1) TALLYING L FOR LEADING SPACES
COMPUTE L = LENGTH OF TEXT1 - L

L is the ending position of the string.