ILE COBOL Language Reference

END-SEARCH Phrase

This explicit scope terminator serves to delimit the scope of the SEARCH statement. END-SEARCH permits a conditional SEARCH statement to be nested in another conditional statement. If the END-SEARCH phrase is specified, the NEXT SENTENCE phrase must not be specified.

For more information, see Delimited Scope Statements.


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