DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STRING and MOVE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STRING and MOVE
The following COBOL program depicts the use of
difference between STRING and MOVE command
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. PGM041.
AUTHOR. MAINFRAMEWIZARD.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 WS-STRING1 PIC X(19) VALUE 'MAINFRAMEWIZARD.COM'.
01 WS-STRING2 PIC X(19) VALUE 'MAINFRAMEWIZARD.COM'.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
10000-MAIN-PARA.
MOVE 'COBOLLANG' TO WS-STRING1
DISPLAY 'RESULT OF MOVE STATEMENT:-' WS-STRING1
STRING 'COBOLLANG' DELIMITED BY SIZE
INTO WS-STRING2
DISPLAY 'RESULT OF STRING STATEMENT:-' WS-STRING2
STOP RUN.
Output of the above program is
RESULT OF MOVE STATEMENT:-COBOLLANG
RESULT OF STRING STATEMENT:-COBOLLANGWIZARD.COM