Examples

The following statement illustrates the use of intrinsic function UPPER-CASE to replace each lowercase letter in an alphanumeric argument with the corresponding uppercase letter.

MOVE FUNCTION UPPER-CASE('hello') TO DATA-NAME.

This statement moves HELLO into DATA-NAME.

The following statement illustrates the use of intrinsic function LOWER-CASE to replace each uppercase letter in a national argument with the corresponding lowercase letter.

MOVE FUNCTION LOWER-CASE(N'HELLO') TO N-DATA-NAME.

This statement moves national characters hello into N-DATA-NAME.

The following statement illustrates the use of a numeric intrinsic function:

COMPUTE NUM-ITEM = FUNCTION SUM(A B C)

This statement uses the numeric function SUM to add the values of A, B, and C and places the result in NUM-ITEM.