1 new exercise: pig-latin

[kapitaali]

Hi,

please find 1 new exercise to the COBOL track: pig-latin

[kapitaali]

whoops, there was a comma missing in config.json

fixed now

[axtens]

       01 STARTING-POINT           USAGE BINARY-LONG.       
       01 ITEM-COUNT               USAGE BINARY-LONG.       

           INITIALIZE ITEM-COUNT.
           INSPECT WS-INPUT TALLYING ITEM-COUNT FOR ALL SPACE.
           UNSTRING WS-INPUT DELIMITED BY ' ' 
                INTO WORDSLIST(ITEM-COUNT)
                WITH POINTER STARTING-POINT.

That does however appear to break one of the tests. It's not vital. In one sense the code just has to work, no matter how inefficiently. At another level, you learning to write better COBOL isn't a bad thing.

[kapitaali]

       01 STARTING-POINT           USAGE BINARY-LONG.       
       01 ITEM-COUNT               USAGE BINARY-LONG.       

           INITIALIZE ITEM-COUNT.
           INSPECT WS-INPUT TALLYING ITEM-COUNT FOR ALL SPACE.
           UNSTRING WS-INPUT DELIMITED BY ' ' 
                INTO WORDSLIST(ITEM-COUNT)
                WITH POINTER STARTING-POINT.

The code as it is given here leaves the WORDSLIST table empty. So it would need to be changed somehow.

In fact I tried looking up some kind of (working example) code from somewhere so that I would not have to write any indices. But I could not find any. I've seen examples with PERFORM UNTIL SOMECHAR = 'Y' and then the UNSTRING contains NOT ON OVERFLOW MOVE 'Y' TO SOMECHAR, but that gives me equally empty table.

For example here they do just like I did: https://users.cs.jmu.edu/adamses/Web/CS%20430%20Fall%202004/Student%20Project%20Work/Akanni%20-%20COBOL/COBOL%20Tutorial%20HTML-Pages/The%20UNSTRING%20verb.htm

That does however appear to break one of the tests. It's not vital. In one sense the code just has to work, no matter how inefficiently. At another level, you learning to write better COBOL isn't a bad thing.

Aye I don't mind learning, but I do need some sort of source material.

[axtens]

My apologies. I thought that was working. Hmmm ... shall get back to you.

[axtens]

See my exploration on onecompiler. I thought COBOL would unstring into the array but, alas, I have to be more explicit about my intention.

[kapitaali]

I changed it to UNSTRING WITH POINTER, it's good to know those types of tricks if you have a long string and a resulting table of millions of entries.