HP 3000 Manuals

COBOL/HP-UX Language Reference for the Series 700 and 800

ELSE Statement with Conditional Compilation 

General Format 

     $ELSE 

General Rules 

   1.  The whole statement must appear on a single line.

   2.  The most recent $IF condition is reversed.  If the now active $IF
       condition is true the source lines following the $ELSE statement
       are processed.  If the $IF condition is false COBOL source lines
       are ignored until the next conditional compilation line is
       encountered.

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