RE: Inspect ASCII Characters

[Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cesar,

Maybe you could try the CLASS clause:

SPECIAL-NAMES.
               CLASS VALID-NUMBERS IS
                   "0123456789 ".

01  Test-OK               pic x(01) value space.
01  example-data.
    05  test-one          pic x(06) value  "B67890".
    05  test-two          pic x(06) value  " 399  ".

if test-one is VALID-NUMBERS
    move "Y"    to Test-OK
else
    move "N"    to Test-OK
end-if.

if test-two is VALID-NUMBERS
    move "Y"    to Test-OK
else
    move "N"    to Test-OK
end-if.

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cesaralt@viabcp.com [mailto:cesaralt@viabcp.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:50 AM
> To: cobol400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Inspect ASCII Characters
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>
> Hi,
> We have a master file (No data base) that it is updated via a
> file transfer from a PC Host System. Sometimes (and that's not
> our concern) when the transfer is ended, in the AS/400 file
> remains embeded some ASCII characters (or garbage) that makes
> some subfile COBOL programs to crash and finish anormally.
> (No problems with DFU and normal DISPLAY sentences).
> Is it possible to detect and inspect this characters and replace
> them?
> Besides I have to make a report with the bad records.
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> Regards and thanks for any help.
> Cesar Altamirano.
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