tell me about examine inspect and evaluate ?

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tell me about examine inspect and evaluate ?..

Answer / tejas sheth

INSPECT and EXAMINE are STRING verbs of COBOL.
wheres EXAMINE has been removed from later versions of COBOL.

Evaluate is a conditional statement which is same as Switch
statement in C language, it used to check multiple condition
for single or double or multiple datanames

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tell me about examine inspect and evaluate ?..

Answer / obulreddy.k

Inspect is used to find the number of occurrence of single
character or Group of characters
examine is used to find the number of occurrence of single
character only

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