March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
15h 43m
English
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CHAPTER 5
Control Structures: Selection
The last chapter noted that programs that consist only of a sequence of statements are not very useful. To be useful, a program must use selection constructs to execute some statements rather than others and must use iteration constructs to execute certain statements repeatedly.
In this chapter, you examine the selection constructs available to COBOL. In addition to discussing the IF and EVALUATE statements, this chapter also discusses the condition types recognized by the selection constructs, the creation and use of condition names, the use of the SET verb to manipulate condition names, and the proper ...