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