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Priyesh Tewari
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Hi,
Can some bdy tell me an answer to this. I have a string 'X Y Z A'. There are spaces in between al the alphabets. Now I want to remove all the spaces and just have the output string as XYZA. How can I do it? Please help...
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Robert Sample
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Is the variable DBCS? UTF-8?
Assuming it is a "normal" (i.e., not DBCS nor UTF) variable, reference modification will do this -- see the COBOL Language Reference manual (link at the top of the page) for details on how to code it. |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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| Code: |
01 input-string-size pic s9(4) comp.
01 input-string pic x(10). (or however large it is)
01 input-table
redefines
input string.
05 input-item pic x(01)
occurs 10 times (or however large input-string is)
indexed by input-index.
88 input-is-space value space.
*
01 output-string pic x(10). (or however large input-string is)
88 output-string-to-space value spaces.
01 output-table
redefines
output string.
05 output-item pic x(01)
occurs 10 times (or however large input-string is)
indexed by output-index.
*
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move length of input-string to input-string-size.
set output-index to 1
set output-string-to-space true
perform varying input-index
from 1
by 1
until input-index > input-string-size
if input-is-space(input-index)
then
continue
else
move input-item (input-index)
to output-item (output-index)
set output-index
up by 1
end-if
end-perform
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I would think, IMUO that advice to a novice should be to use/learn indexing first, since it is much more effecient than reference modification, especially since he could not figure out how to accomplish this task. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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Anuj Dhawan
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| Robert Sample wrote: |
| Assuming it is a "normal" |
 , you're now habitual of this forum, Robert. |
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enrico-sorichetti
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but it' s much more fun with ... ABnormal <thingies>
as in Frankestein junior |
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