How to convert mixed data to all uppercase letters using Easytrieve?

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

There is no single Easytrieve command to do this functionality. But below is an example of how to code an Easytrieve program to accomplish this.

 

Resolution

DEFINE FROM-FIELD         W 40 A VALUE 'GOHN          +
     abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
  DEFINE FROM-FIELD-BYTE   FROM-FIELD    1  A  OCCURS 40
  DEFINE FROM-SUB           W    2  N
  *  THE TO-FIELD ARRAY USES INDEXING
  DEFINE TO-FIELD             W   40  A
  DEFINE TO-FIELD-BYTE  TO-FIELD   1  A  OCCURS 40 INDEX TO-INDEX
  DEFINE BINARY-LETTER  TO-FIELD   1  B  OCCURS 40 INDEX TO-INDEX
  DEFINE FIND-FIELD  W  1  A  VALUE 'G'
  DEFINE CHANGE-TO   W  1  A  VALUE 'J'
  *
  JOB INPUT NULL
  PERFORM UP-CASE
  PERFORM DISPLAY-RESULTS
  STOP
  *
  UP-CASE. PROC
      MOVE ' ' TO TO-FIELD FILL ' '
      FROM-SUB = 1
      TO-INDEX = 0
  * LOOK FOR THE LETTER 'G' AND CHANGE IT TO THE LETTER 'J'
      DO UNTIL FROM-SUB GT 40
          IF FROM-FIELD-BYTE (FROM-SUB) = FIND-FIELD
              TO-FIELD-BYTE (FROM-SUB) = CHANGE-TO
          ELSE
              TO-FIELD-BYTE = FROM-FIELD-BYTE (FROM-SUB)
          END-IF
  * NOW CONVERT LOWERCASE LETTERS TO UPPERCASE LETTERS
          IF BINARY-LETTER EQ 97  THRU 123
             BINARY-LETTER = BINARY-LETTER + 64
          END-IF
              TO-INDEX = TO-INDEX + 1
              FROM-SUB = FROM-SUB + 1
      END-DO
  END-PROC
  DISPLAY-RESULTS. PROC
  * DISPLAY THE BEFORE AND AFTER RESULTS
  DISPLAY 'RESULTS:'
  DISPLAY ' '
  DISPLAY '**********************************************************'
  DISPLAY '**********************************************************'
  DISPLAY 'FROM-FIELD = '  FROM-FIELD
  DISPLAY '*************0000000001111111111222222222233333333334*****'
      DISPLAY '
  1234567890123456789012345678901234567890*****'
  DISPLAY '**********************************************************'
  END-PROC

 

The other suggestion we can offer is to use a character translation table.

There is no special command in Easytrieve which will automatically do this.