Cobol Conditions to check a variable

santohsks1987 · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2010 Posts: 31 Location: Mumbai

Hi,

Cobol Variable "NAME" should be only alpha, apostrophe,period or dash else i should generate the error.

Please guide me on how to perform this check on the variable.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:13 pm

santohsks1987 · New User Joined: 29 Dec 2010 Posts: 31 Location: Mumbai

I have a variable NAME, I am performing validations on this variable and the check which i have to do is

If NAME = alpha, apostrophe, period or dash
continue
else
set error-flag
end-if

How to perform the if check

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:34 pm

you could use the CLASS Clause found in COBOL Reference and the PROGRAMERS Guide

Dsingh29 · Active User Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 132 Location: IBM

Please go through the below link.

www.cobolportal.com/resources/articles/20000403_001.asp?bhcp=1