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varunkrish

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:28 pm    Post subject: How we do palindrome program in cobol
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how we do palindrome program in cobol
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ashimer

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:45 pm    Post subject:
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Code:


01 WS-PAL PIC X(3) VALUE 'WOW'


IF WS-PAL = FUNCTION REVERSE(WS-PAL) THEN
 DISPLAY ' PALINDROME'
ELSE
 DISPLAY 'NOT PALINDROME'
END-IF


ensure you remove the trailing spaces (if at all present ) before using the function ....
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shoumitra sutradhar

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:45 pm    Post subject:
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DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-PALIND PIC X(15).

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
MAIN-LINE.
PERFORM 0010-ACCEPT THRU 0010-EXIT.
PERFORM 0020-EVAL THRU 0020-EXIT.
STOP RUN.

0010-ACCEPT.
ACCEPT WS-PALIND.

0010-EXIT.
EXIT.

0020-EVAL.
IF WS-PALIND(1:1) = WS-PALIND(15:1)
AND WS-PALIND(2:1) = WS-PALIND(14:1)
AND WS-PALIND(3:1) = WS-PALIND(13:1)
AND WS-PALIND(4:1) = WS-PALIND(12:1)
AND WS-PALIND(5:1) = WS-PALIND(11:1)
AND WS-PALIND(6:1) = WS-PALIND(10:1)
AND WS-PALIND(7:1) = WS-PALIND(9:1)
DISPLAY ' THE WORD ENTERED IS PALINDROME: ' WS-PALIND
ELSE
DISPLAY ' THE WORD ENTERED IS NOT PALINDROME:' WS-PALIND
END-IF.

0020-EXIT.
EXIT.

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Hope this helps you.
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Itanium

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 4:28 pm    Post subject:
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shoumitra,
This will work only when a 15 Byte word is entered.

It wont work for words like wow,madam etc..

Thanks,
Sakkara
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