Procedure Division Statements

Every statement in COBOL is started with a reserved word called a verb. The topics in this section cover the verbs available in ACUCOBOL-GT.

ACCEPT Statement
ADD Statement
ALTER Statement
CALL Statement
CANCEL Statement
CHAIN Statement
CLOSE Statement
COMMIT Statement
COMPUTE Statement
CONTINUE Statement
CREATE Statement
DELETE Statement
DESTROY Statement
DISPLAY Statement
DIVIDE Statement
ENTRY Statement
EVALUATE Statement
EXHIBIT Statement
EXIT Statement
GOBACK Statement
GO TO Statement
IF Statement
INITIALIZE Statement
INQUIRE Statement
INSPECT Statement
LOCK Statement
MERGE Statement
MODIFY Statement
MOVE Statement
MULTIPLY Statement
NEXT SENTENCE Statement
OPEN Statement
PERFORM Statement
READ Statement
RECEIVE Statement
RELEASE Statement
RETURN Statement
REWRITE Statement
ROLLBACK Statement
SEARCH Statement
SEND Statement
SET Statement
SORT Statement
The SORT Statement (for SORT TABLE)
The SORT statement creates a sort file by executing input procedures or by transferring records from another file, sorts the records in the sort file on a set of specified keys, and in the final phase of the sort operation, makes available each record from the sort file, in sorted order to some output procedures or to an output file.
START Statement
STOP Statement
STRING Statement
SUBTRACT Statement
UNLOCK Statement
UNSTRING Statement
USE Statement
WAIT Statement
WRITE Statement
XML GENERATE Statement
XML PARSE Statement

Parent topic: Procedure Division