How examples are shown
This information shows numerous examples of sample COBOL statements, program fragments, and small programs to illustrate the coding techniques being described. The examples of program code are written in lowercase, uppercase, or mixed case to demonstrate that you can write your programs in any of these ways.
To more clearly separate some examples from the explanatory
text, they are presented in a monospace font
.
COBOL
keywords and compiler options that appear in text are generally shown
in SMALL UPPERCASE
. Other terms such as program variable
names are sometimes shown in an italic font for
clarity.