INSPECT- FOR COUNTING

It is used to tally the occurrence of a single character or groups of characters in a data field.

INSPECT identifier-1 TALLYING identifier-2 FOR

       ALL|LEADING literal-1|identifier-3

      [BEFORE|AFTER INITIAL identifier-4|literal-2]         - Optional.

INSPECT identifier-1 TALLYING identifier-2 FOR

       CHARACTERS

      [BEFORE|AFTER INITIAL identifier-4|literal-2]         - Optional.

Main String is identifier-1 and count is stored in identifier-2. Literal-1 or Identifier-3 is a character or group-of-characters you are looking in the main-string.

INSPECT further qualifies the search with BEFORE and AFTER of the initial occurrence of identifier-4 or literal-2.

Example:

WS-NAME – ‘MUTHU SARAVANA SURYA CHANDRA DEVI’

INSPECT WS-NAME TALLYING WS-COUNT ALL ‘S’

   BEFORE INITIAL ‘SARAVANA’ AFTER INITIAL ‘CHANDRA’

END-INSPECT

Result: WS-COUNT contains – 1

INSPECT- FOR REPLACING

It is used to replace the occurrence of a single character or groups of characters in a data field. 

INSPECT identifier-1 REPLACING 

       ALL|LEADING literal-1|identifier-2 BY identifier-3|literal-2

      [BEFORE|AFTER INITIAL identifier-4|literal-2]         - Optional.

INSPECT identifier-1 REPLCING CHARACTERS

       BY identifier-2 BEFORE|AFTER INITIAL identifier-3|literal-1

INSPECT-FOR COUNTING AND REPLACING

It is a combination of the above two methods.

INSPECT identifier-1 TALLYING <tallying part > REPLACING <replacing part>