Yigal G. answered 04/08/22
30 years of IT experience with 10 years of teaching computer languages
COBOL has several specific string handling named functions:
STRING - join together multiple text items to one string
UNSTRING - separate the content of one field among multiple fields by delimiter
INSPEC - search for specific character in a field and count them
REVERSE - reverse the order of characters in a field (useful for right-to-left text).