How to transform a line break into a character?

[guirone]

Good morning all,

I've the following problem:
My cobol retrieve a field from a table and value of this field is a text note that could contain line breaks.

I need to remove the line breaks from the retrieved value and change it into a character value as "-".

I tried doing the following:

INSPECT WS-TEXT REPLACING ALL X"15" BY "-" or
INSPECT WS-TEXT REPLACING ALL X"7B" BY "-"

but in both cases it doesn't work.Debugging this line no changes are applied to WS-TEXT.

Does anyone know which is the element corresponding with line break(X"7B" or X??) and if inspect command can be used?

Thanks and I hope you can help me.

 

[Glenn9999]

What COBOL and what platform, and how are you opening the file?

It is not possible for anyone to acknowledge truth when their salary depends on them not doing it.

 

[guirone]

the COBOL is my program while platform is Personal Communications 5.9 for windows.
file is a table where information is stored with break line.

 

[PHV]

What about this ?
INSPECT WS-TEXT REPLACING ALL X"0A" BY "-" or
INSPECT WS-TEXT REPLACING ALL X"0D" BY "-"

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[guirone]

I just tested both suggestions but unfortunately they doesn't works.

 

[PHV]

file is a table where information is stored with break line
So, have a look at an hexa dump of this file to discover the "line break" character.

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[guirone]

Thanks for you help!

I found that character in question is X"25" of EBCDIC.

Do you know if inspect command slow the perfomance of a program?

 

[webrabbit]

COBOL is vendor and version; e.g. Micro Focus Visual COBOL 3.6
Mentioning EBCDIC was also helpful
Platform is O/S and version; e.g. Windows 7 sp 2

 

[3gm]

So, the following should do the needed replacement:

INSPECT WS-TEXT REPLACING ALL X"25" BY "-"