NEED TO REMOVE SPACE BEFORE THE TAB DELIMITER

You're including FIELD-1 by size.  It seems that perhaps the non-null characters in FIELD-1 are one character less than the actual size of FIELD-1 so the trailing character in FIELD-1 is X'00'.  Try changing DELIMITED BY SIZE to DELIMITED BY X'00' and see if that corrects your issue.

How are field-1 and field-2 defined?

~bp

Defined as PIC X.
I also tried to redefine as s9 display, neither worked

Sorry I misunderstood, the fields in the string are PIC X or literals

01  HEX-09-CREATE.
    02  FILLER        VALUE +09          PIC S9(02) COMP.
01  HEX-09X REDEFINES HEX-09-CREATE.
    02  HEX-09                           PIC X(01).
    02  FILLERXX                         PIC X(01).

Put the above code in Working Storage, then in the Procedure Division simply
                  MOVE HEX-09                  TO SOME-FIELD.

I found the abov eon your WEBSITE but it doesn't work either....

On Line 4 you spelled SIZE wrong.

that was pseudo code to make the illustration,  the actual code has no compiler errors

What is the exact entry in the data division for field-1 (including its picture) and what value does field-1 have at the start of the STRING statement?

...the fields in the string are PIC X or literals

I don't quite understand that statement. If it's a "field", then it can't also be a "literal". Which is it?

The actual STRING statement and the data definitions are needed. Pseudo-code isn't useful here.

What platform are you compiling on? What compiler are you running?

Tom

cobol32 on windows/xp

micro focus..not fujitsu

Did you try it this way?:

01  HEX-09-CREATE.
    02  FILLER        VALUE +09          PIC S9(02) COMP.
01  HEX-09X REDEFINES HEX-09-CREATE.
    02  FILLERXX                         PIC X(01).
    02  HEX-09                           PIC X(01).

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FWIW, I don't see any code attached to the first post, but it seems like others do, so maybe it's just me somehow.

 James

I don't see any code attached to the first post...

I see a data definition; but so far there is no code to show what is being done, as far as I can see. That would explain some confusion that I have. I simply can't see any attached code.

Tom

BTW, note that X"0009" is a valid (Unicode) value for a (horizontal) TAB character.

Tom

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