The ALPHANUMERIC class condition represents one of COBOL's most versatile and comprehensive character classification mechanisms, serving as the primary tool for validating mixed alphanumeric content, enforcing flexible data quality standards, and implementing sophisticated character-based validation rules in business applications. Far more than a simple mixed character test, the ALPHANUMERIC class embodies COBOL's comprehensive approach to data validation by providing precise control over character classification, input validation, data quality assurance, and complex string analysis that enable applications to handle diverse data validation requirements while maintaining the flexibility and reliability characteristics that make COBOL ideal for enterprise data processing environments requiring comprehensive alphanumeric character validation capabilities.
In enterprise computing environments, the ALPHANUMERIC class serves as a critical foundation for advanced data validation, enabling developers to create sophisticated business applications that handle flexible data entry requirements, implement alphanumeric naming conventions, enforce mixed-format data standards, and validate business identifiers that combine letters and numbers according to specific corporate standards. Its capabilities extend far beyond simple character checking to encompass sophisticated validation workflows, dynamic data classification, conditional processing logic, and integration with modern data quality systems that are essential for applications requiring comprehensive alphanumeric validation and enterprise data standardization capabilities that support both alphabetic and numeric content.
1234567891011121314151617181920*> Basic ALPHANUMERIC validation IF PRODUCT-CODE IS ALPHANUMERIC DISPLAY "Product code format is valid" ELSE DISPLAY "Invalid product code format" END-IF. *> Negative test for validation IF CUSTOMER-ID IS NOT ALPHANUMERIC DISPLAY "Customer ID must contain only letters and numbers" PERFORM VALIDATION-ERROR-ROUTINE END-IF. *> Combined validation conditions IF ACCOUNT-NUMBER IS ALPHANUMERIC AND LENGTH OF ACCOUNT-NUMBER BETWEEN 8 AND 12 PERFORM PROCESS-VALID-ACCOUNT ELSE PERFORM REJECT-INVALID-ACCOUNT END-IF.
Basic ALPHANUMERIC testing validates that fields contain only letters and numbers.
1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526272829*> Employee ID validation ACCEPT EMPLOYEE-ID FROM CONSOLE. IF EMPLOYEE-ID IS NOT ALPHANUMERIC DISPLAY "Error: Employee ID must be letters and numbers only" MOVE "INVALID" TO VALIDATION-STATUS PERFORM GET-EMPLOYEE-ID-AGAIN END-IF. *> Batch validation of multiple identifiers PERFORM VARYING ID-INDEX FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL ID-INDEX > NUMBER-OF-IDS IF IDENTIFIER-LIST(ID-INDEX) IS NOT ALPHANUMERIC MOVE "Y" TO ID-VALIDATION-ERROR MOVE ID-INDEX TO ERROR-ID-POSITION EXIT PERFORM END-IF END-PERFORM. *> Mixed data type processing EVALUATE TRUE WHEN INPUT-FIELD IS ALPHANUMERIC PERFORM PROCESS-MIXED-IDENTIFIER WHEN INPUT-FIELD IS ALPHABETIC PERFORM PROCESS-TEXT-ONLY WHEN INPUT-FIELD IS NUMERIC PERFORM PROCESS-NUMERIC-ONLY WHEN OTHER PERFORM PROCESS-SPECIAL-FORMAT END-EVALUATE.
Business identifier validation using ALPHANUMERIC for employee IDs and mixed data formats.
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536*> Extract alphanumeric segments from mixed content MOVE 0 TO ALPHANUMERIC-SEGMENT-COUNT. PERFORM VARYING SEGMENT-POS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL SEGMENT-POS > INPUT-LENGTH MOVE INPUT-STRING(SEGMENT-POS:1) TO CURRENT-CHAR IF CURRENT-CHAR IS ALPHANUMERIC ADD 1 TO ALPHANUMERIC-SEGMENT-COUNT MOVE CURRENT-CHAR TO CLEAN-SEGMENT(ALPHANUMERIC-SEGMENT-COUNT) END-IF END-PERFORM. *> Data cleansing and format standardization MOVE "Y" TO DATA-IS-CLEAN. MOVE 0 TO CLEAN-POSITION. PERFORM VARYING CHECK-POS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL CHECK-POS > FIELD-LENGTH MOVE INPUT-FIELD(CHECK-POS:1) TO TEST-CHAR IF TEST-CHAR IS ALPHANUMERIC ADD 1 TO CLEAN-POSITION MOVE TEST-CHAR TO CLEAN-FIELD(CLEAN-POSITION:1) ELSE MOVE "N" TO DATA-IS-CLEAN END-IF END-PERFORM. *> Password strength validation IF PASSWORD-FIELD IS ALPHANUMERIC PERFORM ANALYZE-PASSWORD-STRENGTH IF PASSWORD-STRENGTH = "WEAK" DISPLAY "Password should contain special characters" END-IF END-IF.
Advanced pattern recognition using ALPHANUMERIC for data cleansing and validation.
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PROGRAM-ID. ALPHANUMERIC-DEMO. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. *> Comprehensive test suite 01 ALPHANUMERIC-TEST-SUITE. 05 TEST-SCENARIOS OCCURS 25 TIMES. 10 TEST-VALUE PIC X(30). 10 EXPECTED-RESULT PIC X(1). 10 SCENARIO-DESC PIC X(50). *> Validation performance metrics 01 VALIDATION-METRICS. 05 TOTAL-TESTS-RUN PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 SUCCESSFUL-TESTS PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 FAILED-TESTS PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 ACCURACY-RATE PIC 9(3)V99 VALUE 0. *> Character composition analysis 01 CHARACTER-COMPOSITION. 05 ALPHABETIC-COUNT PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 NUMERIC-COUNT PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 MIXED-COUNT PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 SPECIAL-CHAR-COUNT PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 WHITESPACE-COUNT PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. 05 TOTAL-CHAR-COUNT PIC 9(5) VALUE 0. *> Business data examples 01 BUSINESS-ENTITIES. 05 CUSTOMER-ID PIC X(15). 05 PRODUCT-SKU PIC X(20). 05 EMPLOYEE-NUMBER PIC X(12). 05 ORDER-REFERENCE PIC X(18). 05 TRANSACTION-ID PIC X(16). 05 BATCH-NUMBER PIC X(10). *> Validation result tracking 01 VALIDATION-TRACKING. 05 ENTITY-NAME PIC X(25). 05 ENTITY-VALUE PIC X(50). 05 VALIDATION-OUTCOME PIC X(10). 05 DETAILED-ANALYSIS PIC X(100). 05 FIRST-INVALID-CHAR PIC X(1). 05 INVALID-CHAR-POS PIC 9(3) VALUE 0. *> Processing variables 01 PROCESSING-VARIABLES. 05 CURRENT-TEST-INDEX PIC 9(3) VALUE 0. 05 CHAR-POSITION PIC 9(3) VALUE 0. 05 FIELD-LENGTH PIC 9(3) VALUE 0. 05 CURRENT-CHARACTER PIC X(1). *> Data quality rules 01 DATA-QUALITY-RULES. 05 ALLOW-MIXED-CASE PIC X(1) VALUE "Y". 88 MIXED-CASE-OK VALUE "Y". 88 MIXED-CASE-NOT-OK VALUE "N". 05 REQUIRE-ALPHANUMERIC PIC X(1) VALUE "Y". 88 ALPHANUMERIC-REQUIRED VALUE "Y". 88 ALPHANUMERIC-OPTIONAL VALUE "N". PROCEDURE DIVISION. MAIN-PROCESSING. DISPLAY "=== ALPHANUMERIC Class Demonstration ===". DISPLAY " ". PERFORM INITIALIZE-TEST-SCENARIOS PERFORM EXECUTE-VALIDATION-TESTS PERFORM ANALYZE-CHARACTER-COMPOSITION PERFORM VALIDATE-BUSINESS-ENTITIES PERFORM DEMONSTRATE-DATA-CLEANSING PERFORM DISPLAY-COMPREHENSIVE-ANALYSIS DISPLAY " ". DISPLAY "ALPHANUMERIC validation demonstration completed". STOP RUN. INITIALIZE-TEST-SCENARIOS. DISPLAY "1. Initializing Test Scenarios:". DISPLAY " ============================". *> Test case 1: Pure alphabetic MOVE "ABCDEF" TO TEST-VALUE(1). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(1). MOVE "Pure alphabetic characters" TO SCENARIO-DESC(1). *> Test case 2: Pure numeric MOVE "123456" TO TEST-VALUE(2). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(2). MOVE "Pure numeric characters" TO SCENARIO-DESC(2). *> Test case 3: Mixed alphanumeric MOVE "ABC123" TO TEST-VALUE(3). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(3). MOVE "Mixed letters and numbers" TO SCENARIO-DESC(3). *> Test case 4: Employee ID format MOVE "EMP12345" TO TEST-VALUE(4). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(4). MOVE "Employee ID format" TO SCENARIO-DESC(4). *> Test case 5: Product SKU MOVE "PROD567ABC" TO TEST-VALUE(5). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(5). MOVE "Product SKU format" TO SCENARIO-DESC(5). *> Test case 6: Contains spaces (invalid) MOVE "ABC 123" TO TEST-VALUE(6). MOVE "N" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(6). MOVE "Contains space character" TO SCENARIO-DESC(6). *> Test case 7: Contains special chars (invalid) MOVE "ABC-123" TO TEST-VALUE(7). MOVE "N" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(7). MOVE "Contains hyphen character" TO SCENARIO-DESC(7). *> Test case 8: Mixed case letters MOVE "AbC123" TO TEST-VALUE(8). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(8). MOVE "Mixed case letters with numbers" TO SCENARIO-DESC(8). *> Test case 9: Single character MOVE "A" TO TEST-VALUE(9). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(9). MOVE "Single alphabetic character" TO SCENARIO-DESC(9). *> Test case 10: Single digit MOVE "5" TO TEST-VALUE(10). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(10). MOVE "Single numeric character" TO SCENARIO-DESC(10). *> Test case 11: Account number format MOVE "ACC987654321" TO TEST-VALUE(11). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(11). MOVE "Account number format" TO SCENARIO-DESC(11). *> Test case 12: Batch reference MOVE "BATCH2023001" TO TEST-VALUE(12). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(12). MOVE "Batch reference number" TO SCENARIO-DESC(12). *> Test case 13: Contains punctuation (invalid) MOVE "TEST.123" TO TEST-VALUE(13). MOVE "N" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(13). MOVE "Contains period character" TO SCENARIO-DESC(13). *> Test case 14: Long alphanumeric string MOVE "VERYLONGIDENTIFIER12345" TO TEST-VALUE(14). MOVE "Y" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(14). MOVE "Long alphanumeric identifier" TO SCENARIO-DESC(14). *> Test case 15: Empty field MOVE SPACES TO TEST-VALUE(15). MOVE "N" TO EXPECTED-RESULT(15). MOVE "Empty field" TO SCENARIO-DESC(15). DISPLAY " Initialized 15 comprehensive test scenarios". DISPLAY " ". EXECUTE-VALIDATION-TESTS. DISPLAY "2. Executing Validation Tests:". DISPLAY " ============================". PERFORM VARYING CURRENT-TEST-INDEX FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL CURRENT-TEST-INDEX > 15 MOVE TEST-VALUE(CURRENT-TEST-INDEX) TO ENTITY-VALUE IF ENTITY-VALUE IS ALPHANUMERIC MOVE "VALID" TO VALIDATION-OUTCOME ELSE MOVE "INVALID" TO VALIDATION-OUTCOME END-IF ADD 1 TO TOTAL-TESTS-RUN EVALUATE TRUE WHEN EXPECTED-RESULT(CURRENT-TEST-INDEX) = "Y" AND VALIDATION-OUTCOME = "VALID" ADD 1 TO SUCCESSFUL-TESTS DISPLAY " Test " CURRENT-TEST-INDEX ": PASS - '" ENTITY-VALUE "'" DISPLAY " Scenario: " SCENARIO-DESC(CURRENT-TEST-INDEX) WHEN EXPECTED-RESULT(CURRENT-TEST-INDEX) = "N" AND VALIDATION-OUTCOME = "INVALID" ADD 1 TO SUCCESSFUL-TESTS DISPLAY " Test " CURRENT-TEST-INDEX ": PASS - '" ENTITY-VALUE "' correctly rejected" WHEN OTHER ADD 1 TO FAILED-TESTS DISPLAY " Test " CURRENT-TEST-INDEX ": FAIL - '" ENTITY-VALUE "' unexpected result" END-EVALUATE END-PERFORM. COMPUTE ACCURACY-RATE = (SUCCESSFUL-TESTS / TOTAL-TESTS-RUN) * 100. DISPLAY " ". DISPLAY " Test Execution Summary:". DISPLAY " Total tests executed: " TOTAL-TESTS-RUN. DISPLAY " Successful tests: " SUCCESSFUL-TESTS. DISPLAY " Failed tests: " FAILED-TESTS. DISPLAY " Accuracy rate: " ACCURACY-RATE "%". DISPLAY " ". ANALYZE-CHARACTER-COMPOSITION. DISPLAY "3. Character Composition Analysis:". DISPLAY " ===============================". MOVE "Product123ABC!@#" TO ENTITY-VALUE. MOVE 0 TO ALPHABETIC-COUNT NUMERIC-COUNT MIXED-COUNT SPECIAL-CHAR-COUNT WHITESPACE-COUNT. COMPUTE FIELD-LENGTH = FUNCTION LENGTH(FUNCTION TRIM(ENTITY-VALUE)). DISPLAY " Analyzing string: '" ENTITY-VALUE "'". DISPLAY " Total length: " FIELD-LENGTH " characters". PERFORM VARYING CHAR-POSITION FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL CHAR-POSITION > FIELD-LENGTH MOVE ENTITY-VALUE(CHAR-POSITION:1) TO CURRENT-CHARACTER EVALUATE TRUE WHEN CURRENT-CHARACTER IS ALPHABETIC ADD 1 TO ALPHABETIC-COUNT WHEN CURRENT-CHARACTER IS NUMERIC ADD 1 TO NUMERIC-COUNT WHEN CURRENT-CHARACTER = SPACE ADD 1 TO WHITESPACE-COUNT WHEN OTHER ADD 1 TO SPECIAL-CHAR-COUNT END-EVALUATE END-PERFORM. COMPUTE TOTAL-CHAR-COUNT = ALPHABETIC-COUNT + NUMERIC-COUNT + SPECIAL-CHAR-COUNT + WHITESPACE-COUNT. COMPUTE MIXED-COUNT = ALPHABETIC-COUNT + NUMERIC-COUNT. DISPLAY " Character composition breakdown:". DISPLAY " Alphabetic characters: " ALPHABETIC-COUNT. DISPLAY " Numeric characters: " NUMERIC-COUNT. DISPLAY " Alphanumeric total: " MIXED-COUNT. DISPLAY " Special characters: " SPECIAL-CHAR-COUNT. DISPLAY " Whitespace characters: " WHITESPACE-COUNT. DISPLAY " Total characters: " TOTAL-CHAR-COUNT. IF MIXED-COUNT = TOTAL-CHAR-COUNT DISPLAY " Classification: PURE ALPHANUMERIC" DISPLAY " ALPHANUMERIC class result: TRUE" ELSE DISPLAY " Classification: CONTAINS NON-ALPHANUMERIC" DISPLAY " ALPHANUMERIC class result: FALSE" END-IF. DISPLAY " ". VALIDATE-BUSINESS-ENTITIES. DISPLAY "4. Business Entity Validation:". DISPLAY " ============================". *> Initialize sample business data MOVE "CUST12345ABC" TO CUSTOMER-ID. MOVE "PROD789XYZ001" TO PRODUCT-SKU. MOVE "EMP2023001" TO EMPLOYEE-NUMBER. MOVE "ORD20231215ABC" TO ORDER-REFERENCE. MOVE "TXN987654321" TO TRANSACTION-ID. MOVE "BATCH001" TO BATCH-NUMBER. DISPLAY " Business Entity Validation Requirements:". DISPLAY " - Customer IDs must be alphanumeric only". DISPLAY " - Product SKUs must be alphanumeric only". DISPLAY " - Employee numbers must be alphanumeric". DISPLAY " - Order references must be alphanumeric". DISPLAY " - Transaction IDs must be alphanumeric". DISPLAY " - Batch numbers must be alphanumeric". DISPLAY " ". *> Validate customer ID MOVE "CUSTOMER-ID" TO ENTITY-NAME. MOVE CUSTOMER-ID TO ENTITY-VALUE. PERFORM VALIDATE-ALPHANUMERIC-ENTITY. *> Validate product SKU MOVE "PRODUCT-SKU" TO ENTITY-NAME. MOVE PRODUCT-SKU TO ENTITY-VALUE. PERFORM VALIDATE-ALPHANUMERIC-ENTITY. *> Validate employee number MOVE "EMPLOYEE-NUMBER" TO ENTITY-NAME. MOVE EMPLOYEE-NUMBER TO ENTITY-VALUE. PERFORM VALIDATE-ALPHANUMERIC-ENTITY. *> Validate order reference MOVE "ORDER-REFERENCE" TO ENTITY-NAME. MOVE ORDER-REFERENCE TO ENTITY-VALUE. PERFORM VALIDATE-ALPHANUMERIC-ENTITY. *> Validate transaction ID MOVE "TRANSACTION-ID" TO ENTITY-NAME. MOVE TRANSACTION-ID TO ENTITY-VALUE. PERFORM VALIDATE-ALPHANUMERIC-ENTITY. *> Validate batch number MOVE "BATCH-NUMBER" TO ENTITY-NAME. MOVE BATCH-NUMBER TO ENTITY-VALUE. PERFORM VALIDATE-ALPHANUMERIC-ENTITY. DISPLAY " ". VALIDATE-ALPHANUMERIC-ENTITY. MOVE 0 TO INVALID-CHAR-POS. MOVE SPACES TO FIRST-INVALID-CHAR DETAILED-ANALYSIS. IF ENTITY-VALUE IS ALPHANUMERIC MOVE "VALID" TO VALIDATION-OUTCOME STRING "Entity contains only letters and numbers" DELIMITED BY SIZE INTO DETAILED-ANALYSIS ELSE MOVE "INVALID" TO VALIDATION-OUTCOME PERFORM FIND-FIRST-NON-ALPHANUMERIC-CHAR STRING "Non-alphanumeric character '" FIRST-INVALID-CHAR "' found at position " INVALID-CHAR-POS DELIMITED BY SIZE INTO DETAILED-ANALYSIS END-IF. DISPLAY " " ENTITY-NAME ": '" ENTITY-VALUE "' - " VALIDATION-OUTCOME. DISPLAY " Analysis: " DETAILED-ANALYSIS. FIND-FIRST-NON-ALPHANUMERIC-CHAR. COMPUTE FIELD-LENGTH = FUNCTION LENGTH(FUNCTION TRIM(ENTITY-VALUE)). PERFORM VARYING CHAR-POSITION FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL CHAR-POSITION > FIELD-LENGTH OR INVALID-CHAR-POS > 0 MOVE ENTITY-VALUE(CHAR-POSITION:1) TO CURRENT-CHARACTER IF CURRENT-CHARACTER IS NOT ALPHANUMERIC MOVE CHAR-POSITION TO INVALID-CHAR-POS MOVE CURRENT-CHARACTER TO FIRST-INVALID-CHAR END-IF END-PERFORM. DEMONSTRATE-DATA-CLEANSING. DISPLAY "5. Data Cleansing Demonstration:". DISPLAY " ==============================". DISPLAY " Data cleansing using ALPHANUMERIC validation:". *> Test various data cleansing scenarios MOVE "ID-123-ABC" TO ENTITY-VALUE. DISPLAY " Input: '" ENTITY-VALUE "'". PERFORM CLEAN-NON-ALPHANUMERIC-DATA. MOVE "PROD@567#XYZ" TO ENTITY-VALUE. DISPLAY " Input: '" ENTITY-VALUE "'". PERFORM CLEAN-NON-ALPHANUMERIC-DATA. MOVE "USER 123 NAME" TO ENTITY-VALUE. DISPLAY " Input: '" ENTITY-VALUE "'". PERFORM CLEAN-NON-ALPHANUMERIC-DATA. MOVE "CLEAN123DATA" TO ENTITY-VALUE. DISPLAY " Input: '" ENTITY-VALUE "'". PERFORM CLEAN-NON-ALPHANUMERIC-DATA. DISPLAY " ". CLEAN-NON-ALPHANUMERIC-DATA. MOVE SPACES TO DETAILED-ANALYSIS. MOVE 0 TO CHAR-POSITION. COMPUTE FIELD-LENGTH = FUNCTION LENGTH(FUNCTION TRIM(ENTITY-VALUE)). PERFORM VARYING CHAR-POSITION FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL CHAR-POSITION > FIELD-LENGTH MOVE ENTITY-VALUE(CHAR-POSITION:1) TO CURRENT-CHARACTER IF CURRENT-CHARACTER IS ALPHANUMERIC STRING DETAILED-ANALYSIS CURRENT-CHARACTER DELIMITED BY SIZE INTO DETAILED-ANALYSIS END-IF END-PERFORM. IF ENTITY-VALUE IS ALPHANUMERIC DISPLAY " Output: '" ENTITY-VALUE "' (no changes needed)" ELSE DISPLAY " Output: '" DETAILED-ANALYSIS "' (cleaned)" DISPLAY " Status: Non-alphanumeric characters removed" END-IF. DISPLAY-COMPREHENSIVE-ANALYSIS. DISPLAY "6. Comprehensive Analysis Summary:". DISPLAY " ===============================". DISPLAY " ALPHANUMERIC Class Characteristics:". DISPLAY " - Validates letters (A-Z, a-z) and digits (0-9)". DISPLAY " - Returns TRUE for any combination of letters/numbers". DISPLAY " - Spaces and special characters cause FALSE result". DISPLAY " - Empty fields return FALSE". DISPLAY " - Most flexible of the character class tests". DISPLAY " ". DISPLAY " Business Applications:". DISPLAY " - Customer ID validation". DISPLAY " - Product SKU verification". DISPLAY " - Employee number validation". DISPLAY " - Account number checking". DISPLAY " - Transaction ID validation". DISPLAY " - Mixed identifier formats". DISPLAY " ". DISPLAY " Data Quality Benefits:". DISPLAY " - Flexible validation for mixed content". DISPLAY " - Support for alphanumeric identifiers". DISPLAY " - Data cleansing operations". DISPLAY " - Format standardization". DISPLAY " - Input sanitization". DISPLAY " ". DISPLAY " Performance Results:". DISPLAY " Total validations performed: " TOTAL-TESTS-RUN. DISPLAY " Overall accuracy achieved: " ACCURACY-RATE "%". DISPLAY " Character analysis completed successfully".