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?

GOBACK statement

Remarks:

The COBOL GOBACK statement is a return. Unlike EXIT PROGRAM, or STOP RUN, GOBACK always returns one level. If the current module is "main", GOBACK will return to the operating system. If the current module is a subprogram, GOBACK will return to the statement after a call.

GOBACK

identification division.
program-id. subprog.
procedure division.
display "in subprog"
goback.

...

call "subprog"
goback.

The first GOBACK above will return from subprog. Assuming the second is inside the main procedure, GOBACK will return to the operating system.

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