On 3 Dec 2007 05:54:20 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >You are absolutely right, but this issue keeps coming up because the >behaviour of the compiler in this instance isn't exactly 'intuitive'. I'll >bet that 9 out of 10 programmers who read the manual come away with the >impression that COPY REPLACING is a string replacement function and are very >disappointed when that turns out not to be the case.
If you would like COPY xxx REPLACING LEADING/TRAILING yyy BY zzz then check out whether there is an existing SHARE requirement for it in addition to the general requirement to support the 2002 COBOL standard. If there is (and I think I submitted it), then have your organization (company, university, etc.) file the appropriate concurrence with IBM. You might even make a stink about the lack of improvements in the language that is supposedly the one of the future. Personally, given IBM and other vendor actions, I believe it is a cash cow on a long term death bed. Clark Morris > >On Dec 3, 2007 8:37 AM, Bill Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> <SNIP> >> (text words are not QUITE the same as COBOL words). That is ALL the >> feature >> was designed to do and that is all that it does with current IBM >> Enterprise >> COBOL. >> >> There are "ways around" this restriction (discussed in this group) but the >> COBOL compiler simply will not (and should not) do what it isn't supposed >> to >> do. The '02 Standard did enhance the design of COPY/REPLACING and >> REPLACE. >> If this is really important to you, then you should communicate this to >> IBM >> via an IBM marketing REQUEST. Don't use this forum to "complain" about >> the >> compiler doing what it is designed and documented as doing. >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
