Summary -
In this topic, we described about the Statement Categories with detailed example.
COBOL statements are grouped in different statement categories. There are four categories of COBOL statements -
| Imperative Statements | An imperative statement specifies either an unconditional action to be taken by the program or a conditional statement terminated by its explicit scope terminator.
A series of imperative statements can be specified wherever an imperative statement is allowed. |
| Conditional Statements | A conditional statement specifies the truth value of a condition and the subsequent action of the object program is dependent on this truth value. |
| Delimited Scope Statements | A DELIMITED SCOPE statement uses an explicit scope terminator to convert a conditional statement into an imperative statement. The resulting imperative statement can be nested. |
| Compiler-directing Statements | A compiler-directing statement that causes the compiler to take a specific action during compilation. |