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

Procedure Division Verbs

HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003

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INSPECT TALLYING

INSPECT TALLYING counts occurrences of a sequence of one or more characters in a

source string.

source-string

is the identifier of an elementary item or data structure with USAGE DISPLAY.

Inspection proceeds from left to right within source-string.

tallying-phrase

tally

is the identifier of an elementary numeric item where the number of

occurrences is to be stored. The INSPECT statement does not initialize tally

but adds to its current value. If you want tally to begin at a given number,

set it before the INSPECT statement executes.

for-clause

CHARACTERS

specifies that any character in source-string that has not satisfied a

previous compare-string relation is counted, regardless of its value.

INSPECT source-string tallying-phrase

VST164.vsd

FORtallyTALLYING for-clause

VST165.vsd

CHARACTERS

ALL

LEADING

compare-string

position

VST166.vsd