Hi,

I'm trying to do the following , I have certain variables in a file and then I want to check for these variables in a certain cobol file to see if they contain a certain package if so replace them with value 1 but but that last line is giving problems:

# for each variable in SQL file
for var in `strings $file.vars`
do

# Set char /int patterns
pat_int="^.*$var.*PIC.*9.*$"

if grep "$pat_int" $cobol_file > /dev/null 2>&1
then
value="1"

# substitute variable in SQL file
sed s/:$var/$value/g $file.out > $file.varsub