COBOL 2014 lists the following standard Intrinsic Functions:
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Intrinsic Function Parameters
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FUNCTION ABS 1
FUNCTION ACOS 1
FUNCTION ANNUITY 2
FUNCTION ASIN 1
FUNCTION ATAN 1
FUNCTION BOOLEAN-OF-INTEGER 2
FUNCTION BYTE-LENGTH 1
FUNCTION CHAR 1
FUNCTION CHAR-NATIONAL 1
FUNCTION COMBINED-DATETIME 2
FUNCTION COS 1
FUNCTION CURRENCY-SYMBOL 0
FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE 0
FUNCTION DATE-OF-INTEGER 1
FUNCTION DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD Variable
FUNCTION DAY-OF-INTEGER 1
FUNCTION DAY-TO-YYYYDDD Variable
FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF Variable
FUNCTION E 0
FUNCTION EXCEPTION-FILE 0
FUNCTION EXCEPTION-FILE-N 0
FUNCTION EXCEPTION-LOCATION 0
FUNCTION EXCEPTION-LOCATION-N 0
FUNCTION EXCEPTION-STATEMENT 0
FUNCTION EXCEPTION-STATUS 0
FUNCTION EXP 1
FUNCTION EXP10 1
FUNCTION FACTORIAL 1
FUNCTION FORMATTED-CURRENT-DATE 1
FUNCTION FORMATTED-DATE 2
FUNCTION FORMATTED-DATETIME Variable
FUNCTION FORMATTED-TIME Variable
FUNCTION FRACTION-PART 1
FUNCTION HIGHEST-ALGEBRAIC 1
FUNCTION INTEGER 1
FUNCTION INTEGER-OF-BOOLEAN 1
FUNCTION INTEGER-OF-DATE 1
FUNCTION INTEGER-OF-DAY 1
FUNCTION INTEGER-OF-FORMATTED-DATE 2
FUNCTION INTEGER-PART 1
FUNCTION LENGTH 1
FUNCTION LENGTH-AN 1
FUNCTION LOCALE-COMPARE Variable
FUNCTION LOCALE-DATE 2
FUNCTION LOCALE-TIME 2
FUNCTION LOCALE-TIME-FROM-SECONDS 2
FUNCTION LOG 1
FUNCTION LOG10 1
FUNCTION LOWER-CASE 1
FUNCTION LOWEST-ALGEBRAIC 1
FUNCTION MAX Variable
FUNCTION MEAN Variable
FUNCTION MEDIAN Variable
FUNCTION MIDRANGE Variable
FUNCTION MIN Variable
FUNCTION MOD 2
FUNCTION MODULE-CALLER-ID 0
FUNCTION MODULE-DATE 0
FUNCTION MODULE-FORMATTED-DATE 0
FUNCTION MODULE-ID 0
FUNCTION MODULE-PATH 0
FUNCTION MODULE-SOURCE 0
FUNCTION MODULE-TIME 0
FUNCTION MONETARY-DECIMAL-POINT 0
FUNCTION MONETARY-THOUSANDS-SEPARATOR 0
FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF Variable
FUNCTION NUMERIC-DECIMAL-POINT 0
FUNCTION NUMERIC-THOUSANDS-SEPARATOR 0
FUNCTION NUMVAL 1
FUNCTION NUMVAL-C 2
FUNCTION NUMVAL-F 1
FUNCTION ORD 1
FUNCTION ORD-MAX Variable
FUNCTION ORD-MIN Variable
FUNCTION PI 0
FUNCTION PRESENT-VALUE Variable
FUNCTION RANDOM Variable
FUNCTION RANGE Variable
FUNCTION REM 2
FUNCTION REVERSE 1
FUNCTION SECONDS-FROM-FORMATTED-TIME 2
FUNCTION SECONDS-PAST-MIDNIGHT 0
FUNCTION SIGN 1
FUNCTION SIN 1
FUNCTION SQRT 1
FUNCTION STANDARD-COMPARE Variable
FUNCTION STANDARD-DEVIATION Variable
FUNCTION STORED-CHAR-LENGTH 1
FUNCTION SUM Variable
FUNCTION TAN 1
FUNCTION TEST-DATE-YYYYMMDD 1
FUNCTION TEST-DAY-YYYYDDD 1
FUNCTION TEST-FORMATTED-DATETIME 2
FUNCTION TEST-NUMVAL 1
FUNCTION TEST-NUMVAL-C 2
FUNCTION TEST-NUMVAL-F 1
FUNCTION TRIM 2
FUNCTION UPPER-CASE 1
FUNCTION VARIANCE Variable
FUNCTION WHEN-COMPILED 0
FUNCTION YEAR-TO-YYYY Variable
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GnuCOBOL adds
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FUNCTION CONCATENATE Variable
FUNCTION SUBSTITUTE Variable
FUNCTION SUBSTITUTE-CASE Variable
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The keyword FUNCTION is required unless source (or compile time option)
includes
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
CONFIGURATION SECTION.
REPOSITORY.
FUNCTION ALL INTRINSIC.
Where ALL INTRINSIC can be a list of functions to be used without the
FUNCTION prefix in PROCEDURE DIVISION statements.
The LENGTH function has a sorted history. Some compilers include a LENGTH
reserved word. For GnuCOBOL, this reserved word is only recognized when used
in the phrase LENGTH OF, the OF token is required to disambiguate the
function from the older reserved word extension.
01 some-string PIC X(32).
...
MOVE " a string literal" TO some-string
DISPLAY ":" some-string ":"
DISPLAY ":" FUNCTION TRIM(some-string) ":"
DISPLAY ":" FUNCTION TRIM(some-string LEADING) ":"
DISPLAY ":" FUNCTION TRIM(some-string TRAILING) ":"
Showing
: a string literal :
:a string literal:
:a string literal :
: a string literal:
MOVE FUNCTION UPPER-CASE("Hello World!") TO SOME-FIELD
DISPLAY SOME-FIELD
Output
HELLO WORLD!
MOVE FUNCTION LOWER-CASE("HELLO WORLD!") TO SOME-FIELD
DISPLAY SOME-FIELD
Output
hello world!