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Thanks for the quick response, I never would have figured out that one.

Microfocus COBOL in Windows NT. I've narrowed all the code down to nothing but read the file into a work area and write the file from the same work area. I'm not even moving anything.

Hello all, I have an 11 byte hex field used for barcode purposes and when I come across an x'11' I get an x'00' byte inserted before it and the field now becomes a 12 byte field. I have tried defining the field as PIC X(11), PIC 9(11), PIC 9(11) COMP, and PIC 9(11) COMP-3 with no luck. PLEASE...

Thanks for all your responses, I'm referencing an old college Cobol book that has poor examples of INSPECT and reference modification. Thus, I have not quite figured it out yet. To Crox, the SPF editor would have been my first choice but I have large files coming in regularly and would rather...

Hello, Is there a way to scan a whole record for a keyword. For example I want to drop records with the word "widget" that can be found anywhere in a particular 100 byte field. Any help you can provide is appreciated.

Hello, I trying to capture a portion of the input file name and write it to the output record. How would I go about doing this? For example, my Select Filein statement refers to filename TEST.DM123456.PROD.TXT and I want to capture DM123456 to store in a variable for my output. Thanks Dan.

MAN THAT WORKED, YOU'RE AWESOME!!!!! THANKS A MILLION!!!! :D Dan.

Hello, I can't get my dos SET statements to work in Microfocus Cobol version4.0.28 for Windows2000. I'm trying to use a statement such as "SET FILEIN1=C:\DATA\DATAIN.TXT" and then run the executable. I can get it to work in my evaluation copy of Realia Cobol, but not MFC. In the...

AustinOne, I think you're right in that the input file will have to be sorted on state field for this to work. I need an algorithm to process an unsorted file and will probably have to go back to my original plan of using tables. I'm trying to use this as part of my data validation program so...

I think I figured it out. I can probably do it with a one-level control break.

Hi was wondering if anyone has a COBOL algorithm handy that would perform a keycount on a specified field. For example, lets say I wanted a keycount on a state field in a sequential file of 1 million records and I want it to return a report that looks something like the following: State Count...