How to compare Strings in COBOL

Tirumaladevi · New User Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Chennai

Dear friends,
Could you please help me out on how to compare the strings in COBOL? If there is no such function availabe then can any one of you please advise how to proceed. Thanks in advance.

Regards
Tirumala

shobam · New User Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Chennai

Is the "IF" condition not working for you?

Option 2:

If there is a problem because of the trailing spaces in the string

INSPECT IP-STR1 TALLYING TRAILING-SPACES-COUNT FOR TRAILING SPACES
LEN-OF-STR1 = LENGTH(IP-STR1) - TRAILING-SPACES-COUNT

INSPECT IP-STR2 TALLYING TRAILING-SPACES-COUNT FOR TRAILING SPACES
LEN-OF-STR2 = LENGTH(IP-STR2) - TRAILING-SPACES-COUNT

IF IP-STR1(1:LEN-OF-STR1) = IP-STR2(1:LEN-OF-STR2)
DISPLAY "MATCH FOUND"
ELSE
DISPLAY "NO MATCH"
END-IF

Please correct me if I am wrong.