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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


Handling strings

COBOL provides language constructs for performing many different operations on string data items.

For example, you can:

related tasks
Joining data items (STRING)
Splitting data items (UNSTRING)
Manipulating null-terminated strings
Referring to substrings of data items
Tallying and replacing data items (INSPECT)
Converting data items (intrinsic functions)
Evaluating data items (intrinsic functions)
Processing data in an international environment


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