[open-cobol-list] INSPECT CONVERTING ?

[Richard Smith]

I'm kind of a beginner to COBOL, but I've noticed a difference in
behaviour between open-cobol and other cobols.

77  YYY PIC X(3) VALUE "ABC".
77  ZZZ PIC X(3) VALUE "BCD".
77  XXX PIC X(3) VALUE "BCA".

INSPECT XXX CONVERTING YYY TO ZZZ.

open-cobol would convert 'XXX' to "DDD", whereas others would
make it "CDB" (which I hope is correct).

If this is wrong behaviour, then it could be fixed with this
diff:

diff -r1.48 strings.c
202c202
<       if (inspect_start[i] == f1->data[j])
---
>       if (inspect_start[i] == f1->data[j]){
203a204,205
>       break;
>       }

If it was a bug, then its one less :)

Richard Smith

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