HP 3000 Manuals

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

END Statement with Conditional Compilation 

General Format 

     $END 

General Rules 

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

   2.  The innermost $IF condition is terminated.  The now active $IF
       condition is considered.  If the active condition is true the
       source lines following the $END are processed.  If the condition
       is false, COBOL source lines are ignored until the next
       conditional compilation line is encountered.

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