COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Procedure Division Verbs

HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006

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INSPECT

INSPECT scans a data item and counts and/or replaces occurrences of a single

character or groups of characters.

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.

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

INSPECT source-string tallying-phrase

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FORtallyTALLYING for-clause

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