RosettaCodeData/Task/Strip-comments-from-a-string/COBOL/strip-comments-from-a-strin...

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COBOL

identification division.
program-id. StripComments.
data division.
working-storage section.
01 line-text pic x(64).
procedure division.
main.
move "apples, pears # and bananas" to line-text
perform show-striped-text
move "apples, pears ; and bananas" to line-text
perform show-striped-text
stop run
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show-striped-text.
unstring line-text delimited by "#" or ";" into line-text
display quote, function trim(line-text), quote
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