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HP COBOL
Reference Manual

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Contents (summary)
Preface Preface
Chapter 1 Overview of the COBOL Language
Chapter 2 Organization of a COBOL Program
Chapter 3 Identification Division
Chapter 4 Environment Division
Chapter 5 Data Division
Chapter 6 Procedure Division
Chapter 7 Intrinsic Functions
Chapter 8 Source Text Manipulation
Appendix A HP COBOL Reserved Words
Appendix B Character Sets
Appendix C File Status Values
Appendix D Report Writer Presentation Rules and Tables
Appendix E RTL Routines for Accessing the RAB and FAB Structures (OpenVMS Alpha and I64 Only)
  Glossary
  Index
  Figures
  Examples
  Tables

Contents

Preface
Preface Preface
Chapter 1
1 Overview of the COBOL Language
     1.1     The COBOL Character Set
     1.2     Character Strings
         1.2.1         COBOL Words
             1.2.1.1             User-Defined Words
             1.2.1.2             System-Names
             1.2.1.3             Reserved Words
             1.2.1.4             Function-Names
         1.2.2         Literals
             1.2.2.1             Numeric Literals
             1.2.2.2             Nonnumeric Literals
         1.2.3         Figurative Constants
         1.2.4         PICTURE Character-Strings
         1.2.5         Separators
     1.3     Source Reference Format
         1.3.1         ANSI Format
         1.3.2         Terminal Format
     1.4     Sample Entry Format
Chapter 2
2 Organization of a COBOL Program
     2.1     Program Structure
         2.1.1         Division Header
         2.1.2         Section Header
         2.1.3         Paragraph, Paragraph Header, Paragraph-Name
     2.2     Data Division Entries
     2.3     Declaratives
Chapter 3
3 Identification Division
     3.1     Function
         3.1.1         PROGRAM-ID Paragraph
         3.1.2         AUTHOR
         3.1.3         DATE-COMPILED
         3.1.4         OPTIONS (Alpha, I64)
Chapter 4
4 Environment Division
     4.1     CONFIGURATION Section
         4.1.1         SOURCE-COMPUTER
         4.1.2         OBJECT-COMPUTER
         4.1.3         SPECIAL-NAMES
     4.2     INPUT-OUTPUT Section
         4.2.1         FILE_CONTROL
         4.2.2         ASSIGN
         4.2.3         BLOCK CONTAINS
         4.2.4         CODE-SET
         4.2.5         LOCK MODE (Alpha, I64)
         4.2.6         ORGANIZATION
         4.2.7         PADDING CHARACTER
         4.2.8         RECORD DELIMITER (OpenVMS)
         4.2.9         RESERVE
         4.2.10         I-O-CONTROL

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