Re: COBOL - "STRING" verb available?

STRING is COBOL-85, so not present in the COBOL 74 compiler we have.

Joe



On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:46 AM
nff2jf43ijwvycju3kvjhlqfikcnwrpgg5scgsb2-/[email protected] [hercules-390] <
[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi guys
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> A quick question I was wondering whether anyone could confirm...
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> I'm using the IKFCBL00 COBOL compiler, which I understand is pretty old
> (well ancient actually 01MAY72!).
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> My source code is attempting to use the COBOL 'STRING' verb as in:
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>        STRING WS-FIRST-NAME OF WS-USER DELIMITED BY SPACE
>        SPACE DELIMITED BY SIZE
>            INTO WS-FULL-NAME
>            ON OVERFLOW
>            DISPLAY 'SORRY, YOUR DATA WAS TRUNCATED'
>        END-STRING.
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> I'm getting compiler errors on this line, including "DELIMITED NOT
> DEFINED".
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> Am I right in assuming the STRING verb is not implemented in this MVT
> COBOL compiler?
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> Thanks guys
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> Pete
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