Mastering COBOL Programming

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
COBOL Programming Fundamentals....Pages 3-16
DATA and PROCEDURE DIVISION Fundamentals....Pages 17-41
Numbers, the ADD and SUBTRACT Statements, Some Numerical Data Editing....Pages 42-63
The MULTIPLY, DIVIDE and COMPUTE Statements, Further Data Editing....Pages 64-80
The IF, GO TO and EVALUATE Statements....Pages 81-113
The PERFORM Statement....Pages 114-143
Lists....Pages 144-163
Tables....Pages 164-185
String Manipulation....Pages 186-204
Source Text Manipulation....Pages 205-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
File Concepts....Pages 215-233
Processing Sequential Files....Pages 234-253
Processing Relative Files....Pages 254-267
Processing Indexed Files....Pages 268-284
SORTing and MERGEing....Pages 285-297
Front Matter....Pages 299-299
Communicating Between Programs....Pages 301-320
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Using the Report Writer....Pages 323-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Intrinsic FUNCTIONs....Pages 341-353
Front Matter....Pages 355-355
Program Errors, Testing and Debugging....Pages 357-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-429