Getting started with cobol GnuCOBOL installation with GNU/Linux ACCEPT statement ADD statement ALLOCATE statement ALTER statement CANCEL statement CALL statement COMMIT statement COMPUTE statement CONTINUE statement COPY directive String DELETE statement DIVIDE statement DISPLAY statement EVALUATE statement EXIT statement GENERATE statement FREE statement GO TO statement GOBACK statement IF statement INITIALIZE statement INITIATE statement INSPECT statement MERGE statement MOVE statement MULTIPLY statement OPEN statement PERFORM statement READ statement RELEASE statement RETURN statement REPLACE directive REWRITE statement SET statement SEARCH statement SORT statement START statement SUBTRACT statement STOP statement TERMINATE statement STRING statement SUPPRESS statement UNLOCK statement Intrinsic Functions UNSTRING statement USE statement WRITE statement Data division How does the computational work in cobol?

ACCEPT statement

Remarks:

The COBOL ACCEPT statement is used to retrieve data from the system.

ACCEPT statement

ACCEPT variable.
ACCEPT variable FROM CONSOLE.

ACCEPT variable FROM ENVIRONMENT "path".
ACCEPT variable FROM COMMAND-LINE.

ACCEPT variable FROM ARGUMENT-NUMBER
ACCEPT variable FROM ARGUMENT-VALUE

ACCEPT variable AT 0101.
ACCEPT screen-variable.

ACCEPT today FROM DATE.
ACCEPT today FROM DATE YYYYMMDD.
ACCEPT thetime FROM TIME.

ACCEPT theday FROM DAY.
ACCEPT theday FROM DAY YYYYDDD.

ACCEPT weekday FROM DAY-OF-WEEK.

ACCEPT thekey FROM ESCAPE KEY.

ACCEPT username FROM USER NAME.

ACCEPT exception-stat FROM EXCEPTION STATUS.

ACCEPT some-data FROM device-name.

See http://open-cobol.sourceforge.net/faq/index.html#accept for more details.

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