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HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual

ANSI COBOL'85 Features in HP COBOL II 

Features in the X3.23a-1989 American National Standard Programming
Language COBOL that are in HP COBOL II are shown below.  These features
provide structured programming capabilities to make coding and
maintenance easier.  They also provide capabilities to enhance the
manipulation of data initialization and extend I/O status codes for
reporting I/O errors.

   *   EVALUATE statement.
   *   In-line PERFORM.
   *   Scope-delimited statements.
   *   CONTINUE statement.
   *   Optional FILLER clause.
   *   INITIALIZE statement.
   *   Reference modification.
   *   De-edited MOVE operations.
   *   BY CONTENT argument passing.
   *   Symbolic characters.
   *   CLASS clause.
   *   SET statement.
   *   NOT phrases.
   *   REPLACE statement.
   *   Alphabetic tests.
   *   EXTERNAL clause.
   *   GLOBAL clause.


NOTE  Use the ANSI85 entry point to the HP COBOL II compiler whenever you
      use any ANSI COBOL'85 features.  Throughout this manual,  shading 
      identifies those features that are available through the ANSI85
      entry point.


ANSI Features Added Since ANSI COBOL'85 
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42 built-in functions have been added to ANSI standard COBOL. For more
information on the COBOL functions, see Chapter 10 , "COBOL
Functions."


NOTE  Use the option $CONTROL POST85 for the COBOL functions.

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