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?

SUBTRACT statement

Remarks:

The SUBTRACT statement is used to subtract one, or the sum of two or more, numeric data items from one or more items, and set the values of one or more identifiers to the result.

rounded-phrase

SUBTRACT example

SUBTRACT item-a item-b item-c FROM account-z ROUNDED MODE IS NEAREST-EVEN
    ON SIZE ERROR
        DISPLAY "CALL THE BOSS, Account `Z` is OUT OF MONEY" END-DISPLAY
        PERFORM promisary-processing
    NOT ON SIZE ERROR
        PERFORM normal-processing
END-SUBTRACT

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