RE: Equivalent of SCAN (as in RPG) in COBOL/400

Try using the following

WORKING STORAGE

01            PARM.                                      
    05        PARM-STRING       PIC  X(999).             
    05        PARM-STRLEN       PIC S9(03) COMP-3.       
    05        PARM-STRPOS       PIC S9(03) COMP-3.       
    05        PARM-PATTERN      PIC  X(999).             
    05        PARM-PATLEN       PIC S9(03) COMP-3.       
    05        PARM-TRANS        PIC  X(01).              
    05        PARM-TRIM         PIC  X(01).              
    05        PARM-WILD         PIC  X(01).              
    05        PARM-RESULT       PIC S9(03) COMP-3.       


PROCEDURE DIVISION

    MOVE    120                 TO   PARM-STRLEN      -- length of string to
search
    MOVE    1                   TO   PARM-STRPOS      -- starting position
of search
    MOVE    SEARCH-PAT          TO   PARM-PATTERN     -- pattern to search
    MOVE    25                  TO   PARM-PATLEN      -- length of pattern
    MOVE    '1'                 TO   PARM-TRANS       -- ??
    MOVE    '1'                 TO   PARM-TRIM        -- trim pattern
    MOVE    ' '                 TO   PARM-WILD.       -- wildcard char
    MOVE    SEARCH-STG          TO   PARM-STRING      -- char string to
search
    MOVE    0                   TO   PARM-RESULT      -- initialize result
    CALL   'QCLSCAN'         USING   PARM-STRING      
                                     PARM-STRLEN      
                                     PARM-STRPOS      
                                     PARM-PATTERN     
                                     PARM-PATLEN      
                                     PARM-TRANS       
                                     PARM-TRIM        
                                     PARM-WILD        
                                     PARM-RESULT.      

The PARM-RESULT will be zero if pattern not found, otherwise it will be the
start position of the first occurance of pattern found within string.

See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?lang=en
search for QCLSCAN in upper-left "Seach" for details from IBM.

Hope this helps...:-)



-----Original Message-----
From: cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M.Kamaleshwar
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 8:10 AM
To: cobol400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [COBOL400-L] Equivalent of SCAN (as in RPG) in COBOL/400

HI , 
 
     Can anybody help me out with this - my reqmt. is to search for the
occurence of a string (more than 1 character) in a variable and if the
string occurs then get the position of occurence in the variable In RPG one
can use SCAN to know whether the string is found in the variable as well as
get starting position of the occurence. What is the equivalent keyword in
COBOL/400 . I believe INSPECT only says whether the string occurs or not -
it doesn't give the starting position of occurence of the string. 
 
Please suggest.
 
Thanks
  



                
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