TRANSFORM

General Format

TRANSFORM identifier-1 CHARACTERS FROM pattern-1 TO pattern-2

General rules

OS/VS COBOL supported the TRANSFORM statement and has been replaced by INSPECT CONVERTING statements. isCOBOL supports either statement.

The following OS/VS COBOL TRANSFORM statement:

77  DATA-T     PICTURE X(9) VALUE "ABCXYZCCC"   . . .     TRANSFORM identifier-1 DATA-T FROM "ABC" TO "CAT"

TRANSFORM evaluates each character, changing each A to C, each B to A, and each C to T.

After the TRANSFORM statement is executed. identifier-1 DATA-T contains "CATXYZTTT".

The -cv compiler option is required to compile this statement.