Formats for COBOL Verbs

Syntax for each of the COBOL verbs is shown in the following sections.

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ACCEPT

ADD

ALTER

CALL

CANCEL

CHAIN

CLOSE

COMMIT

COMPUTE

CONTINUE

CREATE

DELETE

DESTROY

DISPLAY

DIVIDE

EVALUATE

EXIT

GOBACK

GO TO

IF

INITIALIZE

INQUIRE

INSPECT

LOCK

MERGE

MODIFY

MOVE

MULTIPLY

OPEN

PERFORM

READ

RECEIVE

RELEASE

RETURN

REWRITE

ROLLBACK

SEARCH

SEND

SET

SORT

START

STOP

STRING

SUBTRACT

UNLOCK

UNSTRING

USE

WAIT

WRITE

Simple Conditions

Negated Condition

Combined Condition

Abbreviated Combined Condition

Qualification

Subscripting

Reference Modification

RECORD-POSITION

Compiler-Directing Statements