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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STRING

STRING combines some or all the characters from two or more data items into one

other data item.

part-1

is an alphanumeric literal or identifier of a DISPLAY data item. The concatenation

of their values is stored in the data item named by result. If a data item is

numeric, it must be described as an integer without P in its PICTURE character-

string. When a figurative constant is used, it represents a one-character

nonnumeric literal.

STRING

part-1 DELIMITED

BY SIZE

INTO

OVERFLOW

POINTER

END-STRING

delimiter

result

pointer

imperative-stmt-1

WITH

OVERFLOWNOT imperative-stmt-2

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