breaking string on basis of spaces

scorp_rahul22 · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 42 Location: chennai

I want to parse string from input file

INPUT FILE (VARIABLE LENGTH)
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a b c d e fg hikl

OUTPUT
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I need to break above line into number of lines whenever space is encountered.(It can be one space as well as many spaces)

I want output as

a
b
c
d
e
fg
hikl

I want to know is this possible in COBOL

enrico-sorichetti

yes
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

scorp_rahul22 · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 42 Location: chennai

can u please paste that thing here if possible, as i am not able to open that page because of access issues

UmeySan · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:44 pm Post subject:

Hi Rahul Gupta !

Perhaps, if you reflect on the way, you posted your questions, you could come to the conclusion, why you're getting short and single-line answers.

A shade more gentleness would be indicated.

So now, back to your problem.

Use UNSTRING command. Design a little loop, where you unstring the first string delimeted by space and the rest into two variables. Move back only the rest. Unstring again.

Regards, UmeySan

scorp_rahul22 · New User Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 42 Location: chennai

I am not able to get logic for that. It wud be very kind of you if u can help me in that

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

Hello,

Post what you have tried and where there are questions or problems.

If you have no idea where to start, i suggest you look in the COBOL Language Refverence and Programmers Guide available via the "IBM Manuals" link at the top of the page. There is a lot of material on UNSTRING as well as examples.

If you read something you do not understand, post it here and we will try to clarify.