Please help how to code square brackets in COBOL

[Nivas15]

Hi, How can I code the square brackets ([ and ]) in COBOL. I used X'BA and X'BD, but it does not work. Please help. Thanks.

 

[Glenn9999]

I don't have the system available to test, but are you sure these are not considered unprintable characters, and therefore are not displayed?

 

[razalas]

According to this source the EBCDIC codes for left and right brackets are: x'BA' and x'BB', respectively.

In ASCII, they would be x'5B' and x'5D'.

Code what you mean,
and mean what you code!
But by all means post your code!

Razalas

 

[stevexff]

I think the brackets are a bit of a moveable feast, depending on which code page you are using. In my green card (actually a little blue book nowadays) they are listed as BA and BD but on my current system (code page 500) they are BA and BB.

They show up fine on a CICS terminal, but if you write them to a TDQ sysout destination, they are unreadable under SDSF and show up as blanks. Which can be a bit confusing...

Steve

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