Re: [open-cobol-list] substitute not found ?

[Michael Anderson]

Also (In the name of "Kickin Cobol up a notch" to the script kiddies)
Using OC compile directives, like:

cobc -free -ffunctions-all

You can:
Display Upper-Case(Substitute("This is the original 
string.";"original";"new";"string";"text")).

--
Mike.


On 09/08/2013 06:29 PM, Patrick wrote:
> Sorry for all the noise today.
>
> I figured out was wrong.
>
> I was assuming that I could use a function "out in the open" to
> manipulate data. However the manual says on page 6-11, that an intrinsic
> function can be used anywhere in the procedure division that a literal
> is allowed.
>
> So in a MOVE statement or DISPLAY but we can't just have a statement
> "foo" and in turn we can't just have function SUBSTITUTE.
>
> -Patrick
>
>
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