The IF, GO TO and EVALUATE Statements

Hutty, Roger; Spence, Mary

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-14327-6_5

Roger Hutty³ &
Mary Spence⁴

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In the programs that we have considered so far most of the statements in the PROCEDURE DIVISION have been executed in sequence, one after the other. There are several COBOL statements which can cause the sequence to be broken and different groups of statements to be executed depending upon some condition. One statement that we have already seen is SIZE ERROR in arithmetic verbs.

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School of Computing Sciences De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Roger Hutty (Head of Computer Science Department)
Department of Information Systems, School of Computing Sciences De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Mary Spence (Senior Lecturer)

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Hutty, R., Spence, M. (1997). The IF, GO TO and EVALUATE Statements. In: Mastering COBOL Programming. Palgrave Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14327-6_5

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