COBOL VERBS


      











COBOL VERBS


Now let us discuss more about statements in cobol. As we already noted, 
Statement starts with a COBOL verb.  To code a statement or a sentence 
you need to know cobol verbs. In this page you can see important cobol
verbs. in next chapters,  we will discuss about these verbs in detail.

Data manipulation/arithmetic verbs.

INITIALIZE
MOVE
ADD
SUBTRACT
MULTIPLY
DIVIDE
COMPUTE


I-O verbs

ACCEPT
DISPLAY 


String handling verbs

STRING
UNSTRING
INSPECT


File handling verbs

OPEN
CLOSE
READ
WRITE
REWRITE
START
DELETE

Program branching Verbs

CALL
EXIT
EXIT PROGRAM
GO TO
PERFORM
STOP
STOP RUN