COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

Procedure Division Verbs
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INSPECT
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If you omit replacement, the sending operand is the implied figurative
constant SPACES or ZEROS, as this table shows:
The value of sender is established before the implicit MOVE statement
executes.
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Execution of the Implicit MOVE Statements
For each receiving operand, the initialization operation executes an implicit MOVE
statement of the form:
MOVE SENDING-OPERAND TO RECEIVING-OPERAND
The implicit MOVE statements are executed in the order that the receiver s
associated with their receiving operands appear in the INITIALIZE statement
(reading from left to right). When a receiver references a data structure, the
affected elementary items are initialized in the order that they are defined within the
data structure. Tables within data structures are initialized element by element.
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Operand Overlap
The storage area referenced by a sender cannot be the same as or overlap the
storage area referenced by a receiver. If this rule is violated, the operation is
undefined.
INSPECT
INSPECT scans a data item and counts and/or replaces occurrences of a single
character or groups of characters.
Category of Receiving Operand Sending Operand
ALPHABETIC SPACES
ALPHANUMERIC SPACES
ALPHANUMERIC-EDITED SPACES
NUMERIC ZEROS
NUMERIC-EDITED ZEROS
Form Description
INSPECT TALLYING
Counts occurrences of a character sequence in a
source string
INSPECT REPLACING
Replaces occurrences of a character sequence in a
data item with a specified value
INSPECT TALLYING REPLACING
Counts occurrences of a character sequence in a data
item and replaces each occurrence with a specified
value
INSPECT CONVERTING
Performs a character-for-character replacement