Re: [open-cobol-list] tree data, embedding a language or string interpolation?

[Michael Anderson]

On 03/15/2013 04:41 PM, Patrick wrote:
> So for instance with "<title> $title </title>" the variable $title is
> inserted into the string, no need for concatenation.
>
> If Cobol does not support this, I was thinking of embedding another
> language that supports it.

With openCOBOL there is a function called "substitute"

Move "This is my Title" To MyTitle.
Move Substitute(<title> $title </title> ,"$title",mytitle)         To 
MyHtml.

So MyHtml should contain "<title> This is my Title </title>

Other functions exclusive to openCOBOL that may also help with parsing 
in general are:
Concatenate and Trim.

So if MyTitle is defined as Pic X(64), then you may want to:

Move "This is my Title" To MyTitle.
Move Substitute(<title> $title </title> ,"$title",Trim(mytitle))         
To MyHtml.

Code examples require cobc -ffunctions-all

Use Concatenate to append MyHtml to your html output buffer.

Then
display Trim(htmlbuffer) *> nulls are not trimmed.