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HP OpenVMS Systems Documentation

HP COBOL Reference Manual Previous Contents Index D Data description entry     definition     elements of     skeleton Data Division     entries Data-handling operations     undefined results         from incompatible data         from operand overlap Data items     assigning initial values to     categories of #1     categories of #2     characteristics of #1     characteristics of #2     classes of     contents and class incompatibility     default initial values     default USAGE of     in arithmetic expressions     index     naming     nonstandard data positioning in     storage format for Data-name     definition     in an identifier Data-name clause DATA RECORDS clause Data transfer     positioning rules for     using the MOVE statement DATE-COMPILED paragraph DATE-OF-INTEGER intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic function DAY-OF-INTEGER intrinsic function DAY-TO-YYYYDDD intrinsic function Decimal point     specifying as comma DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA clause Declarative procedures     referencing with the USE statement Declaratives     definition DEFERRED-WRITE DEFERRED-WRITE phrase of the APPLY clause DELETE statement Delimited-scope statement     definition DESCENDING clause DISPLAY statement     reference to devices     usage DIVIDE statement Division by zero Division header     definition Divisions     definition Duplicate keys check #1 Duplicate keys check #2 DUPLICATES phrase E EBCDIC character set Editing rules     for PICTURE clause Editing symbols     in PICTURE clause Elementary data items     alternative groupings of     definition Embedded spaces     in file specification END PROGRAM header ENVIRONMENT DIVISION     syntax and general rules Environment variables ERASE clause Error handling     with the USE statement EVALUATE statement Example     definition EXIT PROGRAM statement EXIT statement Exponentiation     results when invalid EXTENSION phrase of the APPLY clause EXTERNAL clause External data     definition Previous Next Contents Index