Extracting word by word from a text using cobol program

aaleya · New User Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

Hi,

I have a requirement of extracting words from a given text using cobol. I tried using UNSTRING option but not getting the desired output. Can someone help me out with this?

Thanks!

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

not getting the desired output? what does your input look like and what are your expectations?

aaleya · New User Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

Actually say i have a text 'abc bcd cde def '. Now my requirement is to extract word by word from the text. We can say first moving abc to one field and rest to another field. We can use space as a delimiter. When i tried parsing this using UNSTRING, its moving abc to one field and bcd to another field. But my requirement is move abc to one field A(can be a array) and rest to another field B. This field B can be my input to UNSTRING again so next time it moves bcd to field A and rest to field B. This process will continue untill it encounters spaces. Could you please help me with this?

Thanks!

ashimer · Active User Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 108

Use INSPECT here

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

aaleya · New User Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

Thank you so much!!!!