COBOL is the COmmon Business Oriented programming Language. COBOL is a procedural, imperative, compiled programming
language. As of the COBOL 2002 spec, Object Oriented features were added to the standard. The
contents include: Getting started with cobol, ACCEPT statement, ADD statement, ALLOCATE statement,
ALTER statement, CALL statement, CANCEL statement, COMMIT statement, COMPUTE
statement, CONTINUE statement, COPY directive, Data division, DELETE statement, DISPLAY
statement, DIVIDE statement, EVALUATE statement, EXIT statement, FREE statement, GENERATE
statement, GnuCOBOL installation with GNU or Linux.
This note covers the following
topics: Format, Variable Declarations, Executable Statements, Input and
Output, Compiling And Running, Cobol String Handling, Subscripting Vs Indexing
In Cobol and Table Searching in cobol.