Comparing national (UTF-16) data
You can compare national (UTF-16)
data,
that is, national literals and data items that have USAGE
NATIONAL
(whether of class national or class numeric), explicitly
or implicitly with other kinds of data in relation conditions.
About this task
You can code conditional expressions that use national data in the following statements:
EVALUATE
IF
INSPECT
PERFORM
SEARCH
STRING
UNSTRING
For full details about comparing national data items to other data items, see the Related references.
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Related references
Relation conditions (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)
General relation conditions (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)
National comparisons (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)
Group comparisons (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)
Relation conditions (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)
General relation conditions (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)
National comparisons (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)
Group comparisons (COBOL for Linux on x86 Language Reference)