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Inspect and replace with double quotes

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jcarrott

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6/28/2012 1:19 PM

I am trying to inspect for a character "#" and the replace it with a " (double quote) on a windows system.
The system does no seem to support single quotes or hex.
I used "#" as a simple place holder that I wanted to replace with a double quote.
Does anybody know how to do this?

John Henley

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Engaged Reader

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6/28/2012 2:10 PM

Do you mean in COBOL?

Phil Romov

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7/2/2012 3:49 PM

What are you inspecting? Most text editors have a "search and replace" function

By the way, cobol does support hex:
02 WS-HEX-VALUE PIC X VALUE X"41".
DISPLAY "HEX VALUE: " WS-HEX-VALUE.

HEX VALUE: A