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
The JSON GENERATE Statement
The JSON GENERATE statement converts data to JSON format.
JSON PARSE Statement
The JSON PARSE statement converts JSON text to COBOL data formats. It matches the JSON name/value pairs to COBOL identifiers, and then populates them.
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 TABLE Statement
The SORT TABLE feature can be used to sort the elements of a table.
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