inspect with after and before together.

[deepthikk22]

hello
I am using cobol version 2.20 and not able to use after and before options together with inspect verb.When i am coding like
inspect string tallying countvariable for CHARACTERS BEFORE initial literal1 AFTER initial literal2.
one error is coming the "literal2" character is not found.
when i am giving only one option ie,before or the after it is working.
could any one help me .

[eddie13]

The inspect clause is a really helpful tool, but it is not the end all of tools. You can not use both options in the same statement. If you really want the count, just use 2 statements. Tallying numb for the before and another tallying numba for after.... Another useful string command that might help you, is the unstring delimited by "xx"...

[eddie13]

Just use 2 statements... also check out unstring with the delimited option