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?

EXIT statement

Remarks:

The COBOL EXIT statement is a terminating flow control verb.

EXIT comes is a few flavours:

bare EXIT is a common end point for a series of procedures.
EXIT PARAGRAPH, EXIT SECTION provides a means of exiting a structured procedure without executing any of the subsequent statements.
EXIT FUNCTION, EXIT METHOD, EXIT PROGRAM marks the logical end of a module of code.
EXIT PERFORM breaks out of a inline perform loop.
EXIT PERFORM CYCLE causes an inline perform loop to begin the next iteration.

EXIT statement

PERFORM VARYING counter FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL counter > 10
    IF debug-override THEN EXIT PERFORM
    IF counter = 5 THEN EXIT PERFORM CYCLE
    PERFORM some-miracle
END-PERFORM

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