what is scan and xlate?



what is scan and xlate?..

Answer / govind ram

SCAN operation scans a character string (base string) contained in factor 2 for a substring (compare string ) contained in factor 1.

XLATE operation translates characters in source string (factor 2 ) to the from and to strings (factor 1 ) and put into the result field.

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