COBOL still rocks in the Steel City!
Way back in the early 80’s when I started developing in COBOL, code was always written entirely in uppercase, due to the limitations of the keypunch machines used in those days. We’ve come a long way since then, and today’s … Read More »
The INSPECT verb has several options: CONVERTING, REPLACING, and TALLYING. Here’s an example of the CONVERTING format: Let’s say that we have a field called FAVORITE-FOOTBALL-TEAM that contains this string: Pittsburgh Steelers. What if our application requires that the … Read More »