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jagadeshdvn
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Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: East Hartford
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Hi,
Please let me know, How to find the length of a string in COBOL? Appreciate if you can explain the syntax with an example. |
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thanooz
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Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 99
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hi
there is interensic function
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function length(variablename).
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jagadeshdvn
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Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: East Hartford
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Thanks Thanooz. It nice of u buddy!!
Just to add for reference
Finding the length of data items
You can use the LENGTH function in many contexts (including numeric data and tables) to determine the length of string items.
The following COBOL statement demonstrates moving a data item into that field in a record that holds customer names:
Move Customer-name To Customer-record(1:Function Length(Customer-name))
You could also use the LENGTH OF special register. Coding either Function
Length(Customer-Name) or LENGTH OF Customer-Name returns the same result: the length of Customer-Name in bytes.
You can use the LENGTH function only where arithmetic expressions are allowed. However, you can use the LENGTH OF special register in a greater variety of contexts. For example, you can use the LENGTH OF special register as an argument to an intrinsic function that allows integer arguments. (You cannot use an intrinsic function as an operand to the LENGTH OF special register.) You can also use the LENGTH OF special register as a parameter in a CALL statement. |
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mmwife
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Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592
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Here's another take on the question.
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01 TEXT1 PIC X(40) VALUE 'THIS IS THE STRING'.
INSPECT FUNCTION REVERSE(TEXT1) TALLYING L FOR LEADING SPACES
COMPUTE L = LENGTH OF TEXT1 - L
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L will contain the length of the string in TEST1. |
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Rameshs
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Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 53 Location: India, Chennai
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"Length of dataname" is working But if i use Function Reverse(dataname) i am getting the error as follows
GYPS2121-S "FUNCTION" was not defined as a data-name. |
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pruthvi
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Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 4
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hi,
for me the above code is working fine and i got the correct output.
i tested the code in visual age ccobol |
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Rameshs
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Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 53 Location: India, Chennai
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Hai pruthvi,
I am coding on mainframe environment using IGYWCL cobol compiler |
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mmwife
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Intrinsic functions were introduced to mainframe COBOL with COBOLII. |
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Anurag Singh
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Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 25 Location: India
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Hi,
How to use the interensic function
function length(variablename).
where it will give the length of the variable?? |
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dick scherrer
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Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 19244 Location: Inside the Matrix
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Hello,
It will "give the length" into whatever field you tell it to. . . What you posted is only part of the code needed to retrieve the length.
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compute lth-of-fld = function length(variablename). |
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compute lth-of-fld = length of variablename. |
Keep in mind that this will give the length of the field, not the length of the data in the field. If the field is defined pic x(10) and the content is 'AAA', the length returned by the function is 10.
If you want the length of the content, you need more code. There are several examples in the COBOL section of the forum, so pick one that works for you. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 2501 Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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mmwife wrote: |
Intrinsic functions were introduced to mainframe COBOL with COBOLII. |
Jack,
A slight correction.
COBOL/370 (the successor to COBOL2) is the version/release where FUNCTIONS were first introduced.
Regards,
Bill |
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mmwife
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Thanx Bill. My bad. |
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Aji
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Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 53 Location: Mumbai
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Hi
This method is without using 'Function'.
Inspect Text1 Tallying L For Trailing Spaces.
Lenght = Length of Text1 - L.
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meen
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Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 15 Location: bangalore
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Hi I tried implementing this:
Inspect Text1 Tallying L For Trailing Spaces.
Lenght = Length of Text1 - L.
But it is giving Maxxcc12 "TRAILING" was found in the "INSPECT" statement. The statement was discarded.
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Yup, you are not allowed to make up your own syntax. . .
At the top of the page is a link to "IBM Manuals" among which are the COBOL Language Reference and Programming Guide.
You might find REVERSE of interest. . . |
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meen
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I Tried REVERSE also
INSPECT FUNCTION REVERSE(TEXT1) TALLYING L FOR LEADING SPACES
COMPUTE L = LENGTH OF TEXT1 - L
Again getting MAXCC12
"FUNCTION" was specified as an informational word in the current reserved word table. The reserved word table used may be different from the IBM-supplied default. Refer to VS COBOL II Application Programming Language
"FUNCTION" was not defined as a data-name.
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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Refer to VS COBOL II |
The compiler being used is too old. . .
Another way to get the answer is to use a loop and count the spaces 1 by 1 from the end of the field until the first non-blank. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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Use reference-modification in an IN-LINE PERFORM, starting at the last byte of the STRING and proceed backwards, until the SUB is less than 1.
Define two WS fields, such as WS-SUB and WS-POS, as PIC 9(08) COMP fields, setting WS-SUB to THE LENGTH OF THE STRING and setting WS-POS to zero.
As you proceed backwards, when you find the position with the SPACE, move WS-SUB to WS-POS and MOVE zero to WS-SUB, which will terminate the PERFORM early.
After you come out of the PERFORM, WS-POS will equal zero (no SPACES found) or it will be non-zero, which will contain the position of first SPACE found beginning at the end of the STRING, proceeding backwards.
This is actually very rudimentary....
Bill |
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Craq Giegerich
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Use reference-modification in an IN-LINE PERFORM, starting at the last byte of the STRING and proceed backwards, until the SUB is less than 1.
Define two WS fields, such as WS-SUB and WS-POS, as PIC 9(08) COMP fields, setting WS-SUB to THE LENGTH OF THE STRING and setting WS-POS to ZERO.
As you proceed backwards, IF THE CHARACTER IS NOT = SPACE MOVE WS-SUB TO WS-POS AND MOVE zero to WS-SUB, which will terminate the PERFORM early.
After you come out of the PERFORM, WS-POS WILL BE CONTAIN THE LENGTH OF STRING EXCLUDING ANY TRAILING SPACES. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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Craig,
Oops! Logic was bass-ackwards!
Thanks for the correction. |
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kranthikumarb
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Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 115 Location: Hyderabad
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I know that this thread is quite old. But the way I looked for a solution after 3 years of the post, some one might want to know a solution after n years.
This is with out using any kind of functions.
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WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 VAR1 PIC X(1000) VALUE SPACES.
01 VAR2 PIC X(1000) VALUE SPACES.
01 WS-LEN PIC 9(04) VALUE ZEROS.
01 TOTAL PIC 9(04) VALUE ZEROS.
01 I PIC 9(04).
01 J PIC 9(04).
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100-MAIN-PARA.
DISPLAY 'ENTER STRING :'
ACCEPT VAR1
MOVE 1 TO J
* TO CALCULATE THE TOTAL LENGTH CAPACITY
INSPECT VAR1 TALLYING TOTAL FOR
CHARACTERS BEFORE INITIAL '\0'
DISPLAY 'TOTAL LENGTH CAPACITY OF THE VARIABLE IS ' TOTAL
MOVE TOTAL TO I
* STRING REVERSING
PERFORM UNTIL I = 0
MOVE VAR1(I:1) TO VAR2(J:1)
COMPUTE J = J + 1
COMPUTE I = I - 1
END-PERFORM
* END OF STRING REVERSING
INSPECT VAR2 TALLYING WS-LEN FOR LEADING SPACES
COMPUTE WS-LEN = TOTAL - WS-LEN
DISPLAY 'LENGTH IS :' WS-LEN
STOP RUN.
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I am happy if this helps someone |
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Robert Sample
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CHARACTERS BEFORE INITIAL '\0' |
You are aware, I hope, that COBOL does not support the C standard of using a hex '00' to denote the end of a string? What you are looking for here is two characters -- a backwards slash followed by a zero (hex F0) -- not a single byte of hex 00. What C defines as \0 is called in COBOL a LOW-VALUES byte. Furthermore, 3270 emulators do not terminate string data input with anything so the data accepted by the program won't have a terminator, unless the person entering the data keys one in. |
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kranthikumarb
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Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 115 Location: Hyderabad
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Hi,
But, In the above code the value in the variable is 1000.
How can we explain this?
I just want to know how are we getting a value of 1000 in total if it \0 doesnt say that it is the end of the allocated size for the variable.
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Kranthi Kumar |
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dbzTHEdinosauer
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Kranthi,
COBOL does not support the C standard of using a hex '00' to denote the end of a string
allocated size of variable is determined at compile time - not run time.
Admittedly, COBOL is not the best string manipulation language,
but if you would read the manuals, you won't have any problems. |
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Robert Sample
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If you define the variable as PIC X(1000), the variable length is 1000. Not 1, not 10, not 100, not depending upon where a \0 occurs -- the length is 1000 bytes -- always and permanently. Unlike C and similar languages, you cannot change the length of the variable at run time -- it will always and forever be the length set at compile time. |
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