Abstract
Simple lists like those we have just considered in the previous chapter are not very common. What are more common are tables, which are an extension of lists — a list consists of single data-items, whereas a table consists of a list of groups of data-items. Alternatively, a table can be considered to consist of two or more lists in which items with the same subscript have some association.
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Hutty, R. (1983). Tables. In: Mastering COBOL Programming. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17254-2_8
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