COBOL String

COBOL String Handling.

String manipulation is an integral part of any programming language. Most of the time, you have a requirement to concatenate, split, or extract characters from the string.

In COBOL, you have various functions that can be used to manipulate string as per need. Let's look at STRING statement.

Introduction

STRING Statement - Concatenation two or more fields .

Example.

COBOL STRING Statement.

In COBOL, STRING statement is used to combine data from two or more variable/literal into a destination variable or fields.

String Statement

Rule: In COBOL string, data movement is from left to right.

You should carefully select destination field length to avoid overflow.

String Example

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