title: COBOL alternative to BASIC's MID and how to concat strings?
body: <p>I'm looking for the COBOL alternative of Visual Basic's MID Function. The thing I need to do is take from 8 strings the first 5 letters and concatenate them.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Fujitsu COBOL.</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks,</p>
  
  <p>Yvan</p>