Re: Cobol Linear search Vs Perfrom Until

From: LX-i (lxi0007_at_netscape.net)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:55:26 -0500

Robert Wagner wrote:

> LX-i <lxi0007@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Personally, I think INSPECT's hands are tied because the REPLACING
>>targets have to be of the same size (at least that's how it is on the
>>compiler I use daily). I'd like it to behave more like the VB "Replace"
>>verb, where I could replace x"31" by "" and shrink up the rest of the
>>data, or replace ">" with "&gt;" and have the data expand. Instead, I
>>had to write my own looping algorithm for that - no big deal. Once it
>>was written, it was done. :)
>
>
> You coulda done it with one line of code by thinking outside the box:
>
> EXEC SQL SELECT REPLACE (:my-string, '>', '&gt') INTO :my-string FROM DUAL
> END-EXEC.

Interesting - I may have to give that a shot. :) 

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