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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 21, 2020

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Enterprise Cobol - Source text replacement in string

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

The REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives allow replacements to be made in the source text, but these replacements only apply to COBOL words.

Unless we are mistaken, it is not possible to carry out replacements in string type literals.

We suggest that the syntaxes "== pseudo-text ==" of the REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives also apply to string literals.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 24, 2020

    Concatenation operator « & » is ISO Cobol standard but not supported in IBM Cobol.

    This would be the solution.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 20, 2020

    This request is not part of the COBOL Standard and is not inline with our long term roadmap. As a result, it is being rejected.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 18, 2020

    @Rune,

    Thanks, this ok for "DISPLAY", but not for "VALUE" in PICTURE :

    01 WELCOME PIC X(80) VALUE "Hello :1: !".
    ...
    DISPLAY WELCOME.

    This would be ok if IBM COBOL had the "&" string concatenation operator (wich is standard ISO) :

    01 WELCOME PIC X(80) VALUE "Hello " & ":1:" & " !".

    REPLACE ==":1:"== BY =="Rune"==.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 22, 2020

    Hi Denis,
    You can already do this:
    REPLACE ==':THIS:'== BY =='THAT'==.
    DISPLAY 'Transaction - ' ':THIS:' 'Is ending'
    Regards,
    Rune

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