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vijay
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:01 pm    Post subject: field concatenation Reply with quote

Hi ,
I've 4 fields each of length 40.The requirement is to strip trailing spaces and double
spaces from each field and concatenate the fields as 1 field. ---field1+blank+field2+blank+field3+blank+field4.

Do I've to go through each character to do this or is there an easier way to do this in cobol.

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Vijay
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vijay,

Removing the trailing spaces is very easy, you don't have to check each and every byte in the field. you can use Inspect function reverse and you will find the length the actual string. search this application forum for "function+reverse" you will find many examples.

Why don't you post sample input and desired output?

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Kolusu,
i too have the same requirements as above, i'm done with the function reverese and trying to do the below to concatenate 6 Lines into 1.
But it is not working, Can you please help.

Code:

PERFORM VARYING WS-DESC-CNT FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL       
                WS-LAST-STR                         
   MOVE DESC-LINE(WS-DESC-CNT) TO WS-DESC-TEMP-LINE 
   PERFORM 3000-GET-DESC-CHAR-CNT THRU 3000-EXIT     --> This will identify String Len WS-DESC-CHAR-CNT
   STRING WS-DESC-LINE                               
          WS-DESC-TEMP-LINE (1:WS-DESC-CHAR-CNT)     
          ' '                                       
          DELIMITED BY SIZE                         
          INTO                                       
          WS-DESC-LINE                               
   IF WS-DESC-CNT = 6                               
      SET WS-LAST-STR TO TRUE                       
   END-IF                                           
END-PERFORM                                         


I've used WS-DESC-LINE as Source and Destination to concatenate, i think this is the problem.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you have imbedded double spaces, will you not have to go thru each field, char by char and shift left?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sounds like a standard "squeeze out the gas" compress routine, much easier (or at least less complicated) now with inline performs and reference modification..
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