How To Separate The Numerics From An Alphanumric Data Item Which Contains Both

How To Separate The Numerics From An Alphanumric Data Item
Which Contains Both Alphabates And Numerics ?

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How To Separate The Numerics From An Alphanumric Data Item Which Contains Both Alphabates And Nume..

Answer / shriram supalwar, dharmabad

01 A pic x(10) value 'a1b2c34d5e'.
01 B pic x(5).
(You want to move only numeric data from a to b)

PERFORM PARA1 VARYING I FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL I>10
PARA1.
IF A(I:1) IS NUMERIC
MOVE A(I:1) TO B(I:1)
END-IF
END-PERFORM.
DISPLAY "NUMERIC DATA IS:" B(I).

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How To Separate The Numerics From An Alphanumric Data Item Which Contains Both Alphabates And Nume..

Answer / harsha

Use COBOL program and check byte by byte.

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How To Separate The Numerics From An Alphanumric Data Item Which Contains Both Alphabates And Nume..

Answer / kingmanish

Use the COBOL keyword ISNUMERIC.

This would be evaluated to true if the value stored is
numeric and you can separate the numeric values

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How To Separate The Numerics From An Alphanumric Data Item Which Contains Both Alphabates And Nume..

Answer / reddy

use Function NUMVAL

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