BabyCobol: PROCEDURE DIVISION

Format

Remarks

• the procedure division follows either the DATA DIVISION, if it was present, or the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION, and is the last division in a BabyCobol program
• the Using clauses of the procedure division are used with the CALL statement
• the procedure division consists of paragraphs, the first of which can essentially remain unnamed
• each paragraph has a name that can be used in ALTER, GO TO and PERFORM statements, and a non-empty list of sentences
• each sentence is a list of statements terminated by a dot
• each statement can be ACCEPT, ADD, ALTER, CALL, COPY, DISPLAY, DIVIDE, EVALUATE, GO TO, IF, LOOP, MOVE, MULTIPLY, NEXT SENTENCE, PERFORM, SIGNAL, STOP or SUBTRACT
• execution of statements proceeds sequentially from the start of the division downwards, overstepping boundaries of sentences and paragraphs, until either the end of the file is reached or a STOP statement is encountered

Origins

BabyCobol is a project by Dr. Vadim Zaytsev a.k.a. @grammarware. Page last updated in May 2025.