give the examples for strings and unstrings in cobol
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Answer / gopi
String: It is a command which is to concatenates multiple variables into a single variable.
Ex: STRING yy,
"-",
mm,
"-",
dd
deliminate by size
Into ws-date.
End-string.
Unstring:It is a command which is to deconcatenates single variable into a multiple variables.
Ex: UNSTRING
ws-date.
deliminate by "-"
INTO
yy,
mm,
dd
End-string.
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Answer / mohan.ch
string-add the 2 or more ws-vars to one ws-var
eg:-string ws-var1,ws-var2,ws-var3,ws-var4
into ws-var5
wel'
come,
to,
india
o/p wel come to india
unstring-split the varables to multiple
reverse of srting
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