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 TALLYING REPLACING

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.

position

marks a beginning or ending point for an INSPECT scan cycle. A

CHARACTERS phrase, ALL phrase, or LEADING phrase can have a

single BEFORE phrase, a single AFTER phrase, or one BEFORE phrase

and one AFTER phrase in either order.

BEFORE

specifies that scanning is up to but not including the character or

characters matching delim-string. If INSPECT does not find

delim-string in source-string, it scans all of source-string.

AFTER

specifies that scanning starts at the position immediately following the

character or characters matching delim-string. If INSPECT does

not find delim-string in source-string, it does not scan

source-string .

INITIAL

is for documentation only and has no effect.

CHARACTERS

ALL

LEADING

compare-string

position

VST166.vsd

BEFORE

AFTER INITIAL

delim-string

VST167.vsd