Getting started with cobol GnuCOBOL installation with GNU/Linux ACCEPT statement ADD statement ALLOCATE statement ALTER statement CANCEL statement CALL statement COMMIT statement COMPUTE statement CONTINUE statement COPY directive String DELETE statement DIVIDE statement DISPLAY statement EVALUATE statement EXIT statement GENERATE statement FREE statement GO TO statement GOBACK statement IF statement INITIALIZE statement INITIATE statement INSPECT statement MERGE statement MOVE statement MULTIPLY statement OPEN statement PERFORM statement READ statement RELEASE statement RETURN statement REPLACE directive REWRITE statement SET statement SEARCH statement SORT statement START statement SUBTRACT statement STOP statement TERMINATE statement STRING statement SUPPRESS statement UNLOCK statement Intrinsic Functions UNSTRING statement USE statement WRITE statement Data division How does the computational work in cobol?

INSPECT statement

Remarks:

The INSPECT statement is a scan and replace verb in COBOL.

Where tallying-phrase is:

replacing-phrase is:

missing image

before-after-phrase is:

INSPECT reformatting a date line

GCobol identification division.
       program-id. inspecting.

       data division.
       working-storage section.
       01  ORIGINAL            pic XXXX/XX/XXBXX/XX/XXXXXXX/XX.
       01  DATEREC             pic XXXX/XX/XXBXX/XX/XXXXXXX/XX.

       procedure division.

       move function when-compiled to DATEREC ORIGINAL

       INSPECT DATEREC REPLACING ALL "/" BY ":" AFTER INITIAL SPACE

       display "Formatted function WHEN-COMPILED " ORIGINAL
       display " after INSPECT REPLACING         " DATEREC

       goback.
       end program inspecting.

Giving:

Formatted function WHEN-COMPILED 2010/03/25 23/05/0900-04/00
 after INSPECT REPLACING         2010/03/25 23:05:0900-04:00

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