quick question. XOR in RM/Cobol.

[vonusito]

Hello,

I work with RM/Cobol 7.03 and RM/Cobol 11, according to some sources i've checked it's not possible to do a "XOR" expression in cobol.

Hopefully one one you guys can help me with this. BTW sorry for my broken english, this is not my mother language.


I need to calculate an LCR(Hexadecimal) in Cobol.

ex. I need to take this string "01,50,1,T0501,78174,0,0,11,0,1,"

then do (0 XOR 1) = RES, do (RES XOR 1) = RES2, do (RES2 XOR ,) and continue for every character of the given string(commas included). The final result sould be an Hexadecimal value. According to the string source the result should be a "59".

Thanks in advance.

David L.

 

[k5tm]

XOR can be expressed in terms of logical disjunction, conjunction, and negation (for example see here). You have those available in the subprogram library (C$LogicalAnd, etc); see the RM/COBOL User's Guide for more information.

Another way is to create a table of XOR results, and use the binary value of the bytes to do a lookup. See thread209-571499 where I demonstarte this technique.


Tom Morrison
Hill Country Software

 

[vonusito]

Thank you very much,

Found the subprogram library for the XOR in the RM/guide and Works great. Now i feel bad for not searching first on the user guide. Amazingly not a single article, fórum, post i read mentioned this.

Thanks again for the quick reply.

David Lopez.

 

[k5tm]

David, welcome to Tek-Tips.

Bit-wise boolean operations are/were not common in COBOL. So, proprietary solutions are created by the COBOL vendors prior to the standardization of bit data types and boolean operations in 2002. In RM/COBOL (which is built on the 1985 standard) we chose to use CALL rather than extend the COBOL language.

Tom Morrison
Consultant