Conditional GO TO

The conditional GO TO statement transfers control to one of a series of procedures, depending on the value of the data item referenced by the identifier.

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GO TO Statement - Format 2 - Conditional

               .------------------.   
               V                  |   
>>-GO--+----+----procedure-name-1-+----------------------------->
       '-TO-'                         

>--DEPENDING--+----+--identifier-------------------------------><
              '-ON-'               

procedure-name-1
Must be a section or paragraph in the Procedure Division.
identifier
Must be a numeric elementary data item which is an integer.
IBM Extension

Cannot be a floating-point data item.

End of IBM Extension

If 1, control is transferred to the first statement in the procedure named by the first occurrence of procedure-name-1;

If 2, control is transferred to the first statement in the procedure named by the second occurrence of procedure-name-1, and so forth.

If the value of identifier is anything other than a value within the range of 1 through n (where n is the number of procedure-names specified in this GO TO statement), no control transfer occurs. Instead, control passes to the next statement in the normal sequence of execution.