Converting Upper to Lower Case
Question: In COBOL how do you convert a field that is in upper case to lowercase.
Example:JOHN TO john
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Answer:Converting uppercase to lowercase would use the INSPECT statement.
INSPECT MYFIELD CONVERTING 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' TO 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.
If MYFIELD contained JOHN this would be converted to john.
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