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HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION 

The WORKING-STORAGE SECTION consists of a section header,
"WORKING-STORAGE SECTION", and one or more data description entries for
noncontiguous data items, as well as record description entries.  The
general format of the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION is:


            

Each data description entry within WORKING-STORAGE allocates memory space
for the data item and associates a data name with the item.

You can use the WORKING-STORAGE SECTION to assign initial values to data
items, define report headings, set up tables with initial values, define
counters and accumulators, and so forth.

Level 77 and other data description entries are described in the
following paragraphs.

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