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can index be displayed .
can index be taken into some other variable?
01 ORIG-STRING.
05 STRING-1 PIC X(36).
05 STRING-2 REDEFINES STRING-1 PIC X(1) OCCURS 36 TIMES
INDEXED BY INDX1.


SEARCH STRING-2 when string-2 (indx1) = temp(i:1)
SET INDX1 UP BY 1.

now can i get this indx1 into some other variable. or can i display indx1?

Hello,

question 1. You can use any numeric variable to store the occurance value of an index.



Ws-hold-index will contain the value of indx1, and ws-hold-sub will contain a number for the occurance of inx1. Which you use would depend on what you want to do with in. You can display ws-hold-sub.