WRITE AND REWRITE

[claudeb]

Hi,
To enter a new value in a table i use a screen. for some reason, we have been asked to keep the entry in small lettres! Every time that the entry is called (for update, inquire...) it is in capital letters. There is no call to an UPPERCASE or LOWERCASE in the program that processes this screen.
Does a WRITE or a REWRITE procedure, change the data to upper case, by default ?
thanks

 

[nontrad]

Well, I'm not really sure what your question is.

COBOL is not case sensitive. Using capitol letters only was the standard when it was developed (look up the history of punch cards and Hollerith code if you're so inclined).

WRITE will write new data record to a file. REWRITE will write out an existing record to a file. Think of it as an update.

If you are entering in small letters and it gets "magically" changed to caps when writing the data to a file, I would imagine that this is your compiler that has created this function. My guess is the idea behind it is to ensure the information is all in the same case to ensure correctness for sorts and compares.

 

[claudeb]

hi nontrad
i discovered that the same question has been asked in another forum.

http://mvshelp.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000515.html

i am trying to find out witch solution suits my case.
thanks for answering