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karthikr44
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Hi guys,
I want to know how to convert a value which we get through the input file from lower case to upper case |
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 Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: Lower Case to upper Case |
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Gnanas SNG
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Location: India
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What about this?
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| FUNCTION UPPER-CASE--(--argument-1--) |
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Bill O'Boyle
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You can stay "in-line" with the following INSPECT (with literals and no reference modification) and avoid the "BALR" using FUNCTION UPPER-CASE. Instead, this generates a single "TR" instruction -
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03 WS-STRING PIC X(06) VALUE X'818283848586'.
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INSPECT WS-STRING CONVERTING X'81828384858687888991
- '9293949596979899A2A3
- 'A4A5A6A7A8A9'
TO 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.
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Regards,
Bill |
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Devzee
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| If you are changing the full record in a file - it's easy to do it in Sort and feed it to your cobol program without changing your existing COBOL program. |
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Richa Jain
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Location: Chennai
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If your input string contains only characters, then u can go with this..
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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-STRING PIC X(10).
01 WS-ALPHABTS.
05 LOWER-CASE PIC X(26) VALUE 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.
05 UPPER-CASE PIC X(26) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.
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PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MOVE IP-STRING TO WS-STRING
INSPECT WS-STRING
CONVERTING LOWER-CASE TO UPPER-CASE
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Bill O'Boyle
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| Richa Jain wrote: |
If your input string contains only characters, then u can go with this..
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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-STRING PIC X(10).
01 WS-ALPHABTS.
05 LOWER-CASE PIC X(26) VALUE 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.
05 UPPER-CASE PIC X(26) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.
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PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MOVE IP-STRING TO WS-STRING
INSPECT WS-STRING
CONVERTING LOWER-CASE TO UPPER-CASE
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This will cause the compiler to generate a BALR (Call) to a COBOL run-time routine.
You might as well use the FUNCTION UPPER-CASE as it is the same level of overhead.
Also, someone could easily set upper-case on in the source and automatically convert the lower-case letters in the VALUE clause of LOWER-CASE to upper-case by accidentally hitting the SPACE bar.
Using hex-notation (X'00') will prevent this.
Bill |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
If the data to be converted to upper case is an entire record (rather than some particular field), the record must not contain any packed-decimal or binary data. These would most likely cause invalid data conversions. |
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