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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Language Reference


Conditional statements

A conditional statement specifies that the truth value of a condition is to be determined and that the subsequent action of the object program is dependent on this truth value. (See Conditional expressions.) The following lists contain COBOL statements that become conditional when a condition (for example, ON SIZE ERROR or ON OVERFLOW) is included and when the statement is not terminated by its explicit scope terminator.

Arithmetic

Data movement

Decision

Input-output

Ordering

Program or method linkage

Table-handling


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