String delimited by size in cobol example

---

---

String handling statements in COBOL are used to do multiple functional operations on strings. Following are the string handling statements −

Inspect

Inspect verb is used to count or replace the characters in a string.

String operations can be performed on alphanumeric, numeric, or alphabetic values. Inspect operations are performed from left to right.

Unstring in cobol example

String and unstring in cobol with examples

Cobol concatenate string and variable

Cobol string statement examples

Substring in cobol

The options used for the string operations are as follows −

Tallying

Tallying option is used to count the string characters.

Syntax

Following is the syntax of Tallying option −

INSPECT input-string TALLYING output-count FOR ALL CHARACTERS

The parameters used are −

• input-string − The string whose characters are to be counted.
• output-count − Data item to hold the count of characters.

Example

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

PROGRAM-ID. HELLO. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 WS-CNT1 PIC 9(2) VALUE 0. 01 WS-CNT2 PIC 9(2) VALUE 0. 01 WS-STRING PIC X(15) VALUE 'ABCDACDADEAAAFF'.

Cobol string statement examples

PROCEDURE DIVISION. INSPECT WS-STRING TALLYING WS-CNT1 FOR CHARACTER. DISPLAY "

unstring cobol

unstring into table cobol