Give example of Inspect TALLYING / BEFORE INTIAL / AFTER INITIAL. In which situation will use this in COBOL?

srinivas yadav

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• Sep 16th, 2010

-> Inspect is used to count the number of characters in a string.-> Inspect is used for replacing the string of characters.-> It is also used for converting the string of characters. Let us see exam...

sainathkadam

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• Sep 13th, 2010

INSEPCT verb is used to count or replace characters in a dataitem (string). 
Tallying is used for count the characters and replacing is used for replacing
the character by other characet.

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77 COUNT PIC S9(4)V99 VALUE -1234.55What will be output of the statement DISPLAY COUNT?a) 12345Nb) 12345Ec) -123455d) 123455N

yeswanth_narapu

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• Dec 12th, 2009

The data -123455 is stored in variable with pic clause s9(4)v99 as 12345N because - is punched over 5 and the equivalent of -5 in zoned bits is N.

darapradeep

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• Aug 6th, 2009

As the pic clause is display, the answere is a i.e., 12345N

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