On 03/09/2015 19:38, Francois Desrochers wrote:
> Ernie,
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> How about putting the whole thing inside single-quotes?
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> VALUE '"item one", "item two","","","item three"'.
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> This works fine if the value is static. If <item one>, etc. are variables, you should look into using the STRING statement.
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> STRING '"' DELIMITED BY SIZE
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>         ITEM-ONE DELIMITED BY SIZE
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>        '","' DELIMITED BY SIZE
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>        ITEM-TWO DELIMITED BY SIZE
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>         '","","","' DELIMITED BY SIZE
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>         ITEM-THREE DELIMITED BY SIZE
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>         '"'
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> INTO TARGET-VAR.
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> There is more to it than this but should get you started.
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> HTH
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> François
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Newton, Ernie
> Sent: September-03-15 1:47 PM
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] Fun with COBOL
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> Greetings,
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> It's been a long time since I wrote COBOL, and I have an elementary question about creating a comma-delimited file.
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> If I want...
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> "item one", "item two","","","item three"
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> How do I create the "," between item one and item two?  Is it simply PIC "","" (quote comma quote inside double quotes?)
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> And the ","",""," would it be the same?  Just put that inside double quotes?
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> Something tells me that there is an escape sequence, but the mind is not cooperating.
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> Thanks,
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> Ernie
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Just to add to the fun there is a reserved word QUOTE that gets you a 
quote sign. That's a " BTW.

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