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?

ALLOCATE statement

Remarks:

Allocate working storage for a BASED item, or allocate a give size of heap storage.

See also: FREE statement

ALLOCATE statement

01 pointer-var         usage POINTER.
01 character-field     pic x(80) BASED value "Sample".

ALLOCATE 1024 characters returning pointer-var
ALLOCATE character-field
ALLOCATE character-field INITIALIZED RETURNING pointer-var

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

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