Intrinsic Functions

The following list of intrinsic functions was extracted from cobc --list-intrinsics and shows the names of the available functions, an implementation note and the number of parameters.

• Intrinsic

  Function Implemented

• ABS

  Yes 1

• ACOS

  Yes 1

• ANNUITY

  Yes 2

• ASIN

  Yes 1

• ATAN

  Yes 1

• BASECONVERT

  No 3

• BIT-OF

  Yes 1

• BIT-TO-CHAR

  Yes 1

• BOOLEAN-OF-INTEGER

  No 2

• BYTE-LENGTH

  Yes 1

• CHAR

  Yes 1

• CHAR-NATIONAL

  No 1

• COMBINED-DATETIME

  Yes 2

• CONCAT

  Yes Unlimited

• CONCATENATE

  Yes Unlimited

• CONTENT-LENGTH

  Yes 1

• CONTENT-OF

  Yes 1

• CONVERT

  No 3

• COS

  Yes 1

• CURRENCY-SYMBOL

  Yes 0

• CURRENT-DATE

  Yes 0

• DATE-OF-INTEGER

  Yes 1

• DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD

  Yes 1

• DAY-OF-INTEGER

  Yes 1

• DAY-TO-YYYYDDD

  Yes 1

• DISPLAY-OF

  No 1

• E

  Yes 0

• EXCEPTION-FILE

  Yes 0

• EXCEPTION-FILE-N

  No 0

• EXCEPTION-LOCATION

  Yes 0

• EXCEPTION-LOCATION-N

  No 0

• EXCEPTION-STATEMENT

  Yes 0

• EXCEPTION-STATUS

  Yes 0

• EXP

  Yes 1

• EXP10

  Yes 1

• FACTORIAL

  Yes 1

• FIND-STRING

  No 7

• FORMATTED-CURRENT-DATE

  Yes 1

• FORMATTED-DATE

  Yes 2

• FORMATTED-DATETIME

  Yes 4

• FORMATTED-TIME

  Yes 3

• FRACTION-PART

  Yes 1

• HEX-OF

  Yes 1

• HEX-TO-CHAR

  Yes 1

• HIGHEST-ALGEBRAIC

  Yes 1

• INTEGER

  Yes 1

• INTEGER-OF-BOOLEAN

  No 1

• INTEGER-OF-DATE

  Yes 1

• INTEGER-OF-DAY

  Yes 1

• INTEGER-OF-FORMATTED-DATE

  Yes 2

• INTEGER-PART

  Yes 1

• LENGTH

  Yes 1

• LENGTH-AN

  Yes 1

• LOCALE-COMPARE

  Yes 2

• LOCALE-DATE

  Yes 1

• LOCALE-TIME

  Yes 1

• LOCALE-TIME-FROM-SECONDS

  Yes 1

• LOG

  Yes 1

• LOG10

  Yes 1

• LOWER-CASE

  Yes 1

• LOWEST-ALGEBRAIC

  Yes 1

• MAX

  Yes Unlimited

• MEAN

  Yes Unlimited

• MEDIAN

  Yes Unlimited

• MIDRANGE

  Yes Unlimited

• MIN

  Yes Unlimited

• MOD

  Yes 2

• MODULE-CALLER-ID

  Yes 0

• MODULE-DATE

  Yes 0

• MODULE-FORMATTED-DATE

  Yes 0

• MODULE-ID

  Yes 0

• MODULE-NAME

  No 1

• MODULE-PATH

  Yes 0

• MODULE-SOURCE

  Yes 0

• MODULE-TIME

  Yes 0

• MONETARY-DECIMAL-POINT

  Yes 0

• MONETARY-THOUSANDS-SEPARATOR

  Yes 0

• NATIONAL-OF

  No 1

• NUMERIC-DECIMAL-POINT

  Yes 0

• NUMERIC-THOUSANDS-SEPARATOR

  Yes 0

• NUMVAL

  Yes 1

• NUMVAL-C

  Yes 2

• NUMVAL-F

  Yes 1

• ORD

  Yes 1

• ORD-MAX

  Yes Unlimited

• ORD-MIN

  Yes Unlimited

• PI

  Yes 0

• PRESENT-VALUE

  Yes Unlimited

• RANDOM

  Yes 0

• RANGE

  Yes Unlimited

• REM

  Yes 2

• REVERSE

  Yes 1

• SECONDS-FROM-FORMATTED-TIME

  Yes 2

• SECONDS-PAST-MIDNIGHT

  Yes 0

• SIGN

  Yes 1

• SIN

  Yes 1

• SQRT

  Yes 1

• STANDARD-COMPARE

  No 2

• STANDARD-DEVIATION

  Yes Unlimited

• STORED-CHAR-LENGTH

  Yes 1

• SUBSTITUTE

  Yes Unlimited

• SUBSTITUTE-CASE

  Yes Unlimited

• SUM

  Yes Unlimited

• TAN

  Yes 1

• TEST-DATE-YYYYMMDD

  Yes 1

• TEST-DAY-YYYYDDD

  Yes 1

• TEST-FORMATTED-DATETIME

  Yes 2

• TEST-NUMVAL

  Yes 1

• TEST-NUMVAL-C

  Yes 2

• TEST-NUMVAL-F

  Yes 1

• TRIM

  Yes 1

• UPPER-CASE

  Yes 1

• VARIANCE

  Yes Unlimited

• WHEN-COMPILED

  Yes 0

• YEAR-TO-YYYY

  Yes 1