COBOL VERBS - ADD









MOVE ADD
ADD verb. Syntax 1 -  ADD   {  literal-1 / data-item-1 } ..   TO   target-data-item-1 ..  Syntax 2 -  ADD   {  literal-1 / data-item-1 } ..  GIVING   target-data-item-1 .. ADD verb adds one or more numeric values and store the value into a target data item. Let us see some examples. ADD   10  TO WS-A. Before execution WS-A value is 5,  after excution of above statement WS-A value will be 15. ADD   WS-A WS-B  GIVING WS-C.  Before execution -   WS-A     value    100  WS-B     value    150   WS-C     value    786  After execution of above ADD statement, value in data items are shown below.   WS-A     value  100  WS-B     value  150  WS-C     value  250   <-  sum of WS-A, WS-B moved to WS-C ADD  WS-A WS-B GIVING WS-C WS-D WS-E  values in WS-A WS-B will be summed up and the result will be stored in WS-C, WS-D & WS-E.