Tallying and replacing data items (INSPECT)

Use the INSPECT statement to do the following tasks:

• Count the number of times a specific character occurs in a data item (TALLYING phrase).
• Fill a data item or selected portions of a data item with specified characters such as spaces, asterisks, or zeros (REPLACING phrase).
• Convert all occurrences of a specific character or string of characters in a data item to replacement characters that you specify (CONVERTING phrase).

You can specify one of the following data items as the item to be inspected:

• An elementary item described explicitly or implicitly as USAGE DISPLAY, USAGE DISPLAY-1, or USAGE NATIONAL
• An alphanumeric group item or national group item

If the inspected item has:

• USAGE DISPLAY, each identifier in the statement (except the TALLYING count field) must have USAGE DISPLAY, and each literal in the statement must be alphanumeric
• USAGE NATIONAL, each identifier in the statement (except the TALLYING count field) must have USAGE NATIONAL, and each literal in the statement must be national
• USAGE DISPLAY-1, each identifier in the statement (except the TALLYING count field) must have USAGE DISPLAY-1, and each literal in the statement must be a DBCS literal

Examples: INSPECT statement