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How to do table hanling in COBOL

Postby chandra 2185 » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:01 pm

How to use table handling in cobol program. How to use indexing with the table handling. Please explain with an example?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: How to do table hanling in COBOL

Postby Robert Sample » Mon Jun 18, 2012 10:34 pm

If you have some specific question, we'll guide you to an answer. But asking these questions is asking for a tutorial, and this is a HELP forum, not a TEACHING forum. Read any COBOL book, or go to HTTP://WWW.IBM.COM and find the Enterprise COBOL manuals and read up on table handling and indexes in the Language Reference and Application Programming Guide manuals.
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Re: How to do table hanling in COBOL

Postby chandra 2185 » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:08 pm

Hi Robert,

I do have a specific question,but before that I wanted to try myself and see, I deem that using table concept would solve my purpose,but i wanted myself to try first before posting the scenario, anyways I am going through some material and will try again. If I am not sucessful then I will post the case study. Thanks for your time and suggestion.
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Re: How to do table hanling in COBOL

Postby dick scherrer » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:35 pm

Hello and welcome to the forum,

There is a LOT of info in the Enterprise COBOL Language Reference that is available free online. It has several examples. You probably want to download a copy for easier reference. Also, suggest you download a copy of the Enterprise COBOL Programming Guide. You should (will) use both regularly. We old guys still do. . . ;)

Suggest for learning you restrict yourself to a one-dimensional array for the first attempt. Define a "code" and a "description" and using the code, find the description. If you get stuck, post your code and someone will be able to help.
Hope this helps,
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Re: How to do table hanling in COBOL

Postby chandra 2185 » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:53 pm

Thank you d.sch.
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