COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

Data Fundamentals
HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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Identifiers
Identifiers
An identifier is a data-name made unique by a combination of qualifiers, subscripts,
and reference modifiers.
data-name
is the name of a data item. If it has reference modifiers, it must be USAGE
DISPLAY. If it is used as a subscript or qualifier itself, it can be qualified but not
subscripted.
qualified-name
is defined in Qualified Names.
subscript
is defined in Subscript Syntax.
leftmost-character-position
is an arithmetic expression. Its value must be a positive nonzero integer less than
or equal to the number of characters in data-name ; it represents the leftmost
character of the portion of data-name you are selecting.
data-name
OF
IN
(
leftmost-character-position
)
length
qualified-name
subscript
( )
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