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Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 2 for Eclipse (Windows) > General Reference > COBOL Language Reference > Part 3. Additional Topics > Micro Focus Extensions for Double-Byte Character Support > Procedure Division > The INSPECT Statement

The INSPECT Statement

Syntax Rules

  1. All the identifiers and literals except identifier-2 must be of class NCHAR if any one of them is of class NCHAR.

General Rules

  1. If identifier-1 is of class NCHAR, the count maintained in identifier-2 is of DBCS characters, not bytes.
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