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?

SET statement

Remarks:

The COBOL SET statement sets values, and operating environment data. It can be argued that SET was overused by the committee, as it has over a dozen documented syntax formats.

SET pointer example

SET handle TO returned-pointer
SET handle UP BY LENGTH(returned-pointer)
SET ADDRESS OF buffer-space TO handle
MOVE buffer-space TO work-store
DISPLAY "Second element is " work-store

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