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MSUBSTMASK Function

MSUBSTMASK is a function that can execute multiple substitution commands contained in the file referenced by the DD statement specified as its first argument. The format of the MSUBSTMASK function is:

MSUBSTMASK (ddname,long-string-variable)

where long-string-variable contains the string that is currently being processed. The file referenced by ddname can, for example, contain the following line:

SUBSTFROM '(???) ???-????' SUBSTTO '???-???-????' EOS

where EOS, which means "end of substitution," is mandatory at the end of each substitution statement.

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