March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
588 pages
15h 43m
English
Content preview from Beginning COBOL for Programmers
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CHAPTER 6
Control Structures: Iteration
The previous chapter dealt with COBOL’s selection constructs: IF and EVALUATE. In this chapter, you examine the last of the classic structured programming constructs: iteration.
In almost every programming job, there is some task that needs to be done over and over again. The job of processing a file of records is an iteration of this task: get and process record. The job of getting the sum of a stream of numbers is an iteration of this task: get and add number. The job of searching through an array for a particular value is an iteration of this task: get next element and check element value. These jobs ...